Adobe, Inc. vs Coursera

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Coursera both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a meaningful lead over Coursera (rank #726) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 30). The gap of 31 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Adobe, Inc. carries 63,154 GitHub stars across 1,108 public repos, with 91 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors on record. Coursera shows 1,367 stars across 81 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 46.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Coursera looks better where reach 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.