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Adyen vs ForestAdmin

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

Adyen and ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adyen and ForestAdmin sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (51), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Adyen is ahead of ForestAdmin. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Adyen. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adyen is ahead of ForestAdmin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Adyen. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adyen is ahead of ForestAdmin.

Adyen carries 2,684 GitHub stars across 65 public repos, with 49 repositories active in the last 90 days and 39 external contributors on record. ForestAdmin shows 3,415 stars across 87 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors.

Adyen is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. ForestAdmin 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricAdyenForestAdmin
Ranking
Overall rank#165#165
Pillars
Overall5151
Code8066
Education4774
Community4628
Reach735
Momentum4727
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars2,6843,415
Forks1,978360
Public repos6587
Active repos (90d)4914
External contributors399
Avg polish8964
Avg AI-readiness4433

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