Adobe, Inc. vs Malwarebytes

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Malwarebytes (Cyberprotection for every one.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a meaningful lead over Malwarebytes (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 36). The gap of 25 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 Malwarebytes. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Malwarebytes is ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Malwarebytes.

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. Malwarebytes shows 38 stars across 20 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 1661.9x 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. Malwarebytes looks better where education 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.