Anthropic vs Together

Anthropic and Together both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Anthropic (rank #44) holds a meaningful lead over Together (rank #404) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 42). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Anthropic carries 609,852 GitHub stars across 99 public repos, with 48 repositories active in the last 90 days and 722 external contributors on record. Together shows 20,296 stars across 109 public repos, 42 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Anthropic's footprint is roughly 30.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Anthropic is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Together looks better where reach 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.