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Adobe, Inc. vs Perk

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a modest lead over Perk (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 42). The gap of 19 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 Perk. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of Perk. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Perk. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of Perk. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Perk.

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. Perk shows 34 stars across 25 public repos, 5 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 1857.5x 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. Perk 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricAdobe, Inc.Perk
Ranking
Overall rank#47#372
Pillars
Overall6142
Code8444
Education6254
Community5338
Reach3430
Momentum6648
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars63,15434
Forks13,52911
Public repos1,10825
Active repos (90d)915
External contributors876
Avg polish9533
Avg AI-readiness4638

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