Amplitude vs Pendo

Amplitude and Pendo both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

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

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. Pendo shows 267 stars across 134 public repos, 18 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Amplitude's footprint is roughly 11.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Amplitude is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Pendo 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.