ActiveCampaign vs Avalara

ActiveCampaign and Avalara both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ActiveCampaign (rank #485) holds a narrow lead over Avalara (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (38 vs 31). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

ActiveCampaign carries 6,653 GitHub stars across 88 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Avalara shows 21 stars across 7 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ActiveCampaign's footprint is roughly 316.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ActiveCampaign is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Avalara makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.