15Five vs Zammad

15Five and Zammad both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Zammad (rank #152) holds a meaningful lead over 15Five (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (52 vs 31). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Zammad is clearly ahead of 15Five. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Zammad is clearly ahead of 15Five. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Zammad is clearly ahead of 15Five. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 15Five is slightly ahead of Zammad. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zammad is slightly ahead of 15Five.

15Five carries 141 GitHub stars across 29 public repos, with 2 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Zammad shows 6,394 stars across 11 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 27 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Zammad's footprint is roughly 45.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

15Five is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Zammad looks better where community is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.