Akeneo vs Smartsheet

Akeneo and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Akeneo and Smartsheet sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (43), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

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. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Akeneo's footprint is roughly 14.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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