Adobe, Inc. vs Instructure, Inc.

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

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a modest lead over Instructure, Inc. (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 44). 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), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Instructure, Inc.. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Instructure, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of Instructure, Inc.. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Instructure, Inc.. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Instructure, Inc..

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. Instructure, Inc. shows 10,186 stars across 212 public repos, 37 active in the last 90 days and 29 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 6.2x 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. Instructure, Inc. 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.