Amplitude vs Meltwater

Amplitude and Meltwater (We harness the world’s data in real time to unlock our customer’s competitive edge.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Amplitude (rank #93) holds a meaningful lead over Meltwater (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 33). 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), Amplitude is ahead of Meltwater. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Meltwater is clearly ahead of Amplitude. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Amplitude is clearly ahead of Meltwater. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Meltwater is ahead of Amplitude. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Amplitude is clearly ahead of Meltwater.

Amplitude carries 3,167 GitHub stars across 151 public repos, with 39 repositories active in the last 90 days and 23 external contributors on record. Meltwater shows 196 stars across 22 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Amplitude's footprint is roughly 16.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Amplitude is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Meltwater 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.