Adobe, Inc. vs Sage

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

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a meaningful lead over Sage (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 Sage. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Sage. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Sage. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Sage. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Sage.

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. Sage shows 2,180 stars across 122 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 29.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Sage 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.