Afterpay vs Open edX

Afterpay and Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Open edX (rank #372) holds a modest lead over Afterpay (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 30). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Afterpay carries 99 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. Open edX shows 10,654 stars across 186 public repos, 100 active in the last 90 days and 91 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Open edX's footprint is roughly 107.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Afterpay is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Open edX looks better where momentum 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.