Adobe, Inc. vs Remote

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a modest lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 46). The gap of 15 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 Remote. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Remote. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Remote.

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. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 77.9x 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. Remote 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.