Akeneo vs Shopware

Akeneo and Shopware (Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 2.500 community extensions) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopware (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Akeneo (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 43). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Akeneo carries 2,126 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 7 repositories active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors on record. Shopware shows 4,897 stars across 88 public repos, 60 active in the last 90 days and 102 external contributors.

Akeneo is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Shopware 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.