Anthropic vs Cohere

Anthropic and Cohere (Own your AI. Empowering enterprises with private, powerful systems and builders with accessible, open-source models.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Anthropic (rank #45) holds a modest lead over Cohere (rank #357) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 44). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Anthropic carries 608,522 GitHub stars across 97 public repos, with 45 repositories active in the last 90 days and 736 external contributors on record. Cohere shows 6,565 stars across 63 public repos, 15 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Anthropic's footprint is roughly 92.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Anthropic is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Cohere looks better where code quality 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.