Adyen vs Salesforce

Adyen and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a narrow lead over Adyen (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 51). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 25.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adyen is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Salesforce 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.