adobe-commerce vs Magento

adobe-commerce and Magento both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Magento (rank #209) holds a modest lead over adobe-commerce (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 32). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

adobe-commerce carries 39 GitHub stars across 21 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. Magento shows 18,718 stars across 97 public repos, 20 active in the last 90 days and 32 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Magento's footprint is roughly 479.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

adobe-commerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Magento 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.