Amplitude vs Remote

Amplitude and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Amplitude (rank #93) holds a modest lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 46). The gap of 10 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 Remote. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is clearly ahead of Amplitude. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Amplitude is slightly ahead of Remote. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Amplitude is slightly ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Amplitude is clearly ahead of Remote.

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. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Amplitude's footprint is roughly 3.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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