Ahrefs vs Sprout Social

Ahrefs (BTW we use OCaml) and Sprout Social both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Ahrefs and Sprout Social sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (41), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Ahrefs carries 1,303 GitHub stars across 171 public repos, with 28 repositories active in the last 90 days and 7 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 Ahrefs's footprint is roughly 4.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Ahrefs is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. 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.