Agorapulse vs Discord

Agorapulse and Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Agorapulse (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 32). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Agorapulse carries 308 GitHub stars across 80 public repos, with 16 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Discord shows 28,570 stars across 327 public repos, 36 active in the last 90 days and 41 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 92.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Agorapulse is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Discord looks better where education 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.