Adobe, Inc. vs Pendo

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

Adobe, Inc. (rank #48) holds a meaningful lead over Pendo (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 33). The gap of 28 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 Pendo. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of Pendo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of Pendo. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Pendo. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Pendo.

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. Pendo shows 267 stars across 134 public repos, 18 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 236.5x 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. Pendo 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.