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Adyen vs Sprout Social

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

Adyen and Sprout Social both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adyen (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 41). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Adyen is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Sprout Social is slightly ahead of Adyen. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adyen is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sprout Social is clearly ahead of Adyen. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social is 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. 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 Adyen's footprint is roughly 8.6x 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. 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricAdyenSprout Social
Ranking
Overall rank#165#401
Pillars
Overall5141
Code8048
Education4752
Community4617
Reach741
Momentum4760
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars2,684313
Forks1,978122
Public repos6568
Active repos (90d)494
External contributors393
Avg polish8947
Avg AI-readiness4430

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