Anthropic vs Cohere

Anthropic and Cohere (Empowering enterprises with private, powerful AI.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Anthropic (rank #30) holds a modest lead over Cohere (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 46). The gap of 17 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), Cohere is slightly ahead of Anthropic. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Anthropic is slightly ahead of Cohere.

Anthropic carries 584,015 GitHub stars across 92 public repos, with 46 repositories active in the last 90 days and 911 external contributors on record. Cohere shows 6,555 stars across 62 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Anthropic's footprint is roughly 89.1x 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.