Adobe, Inc. vs Sprout Social

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

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a modest lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 41). The gap of 20 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 Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sprout Social is slightly ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of Sprout Social.

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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 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 201.8x 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. Sprout Social looks better where reach 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.