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Asana vs BigCommerce

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Asana and BigCommerce both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

BigCommerce (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Asana (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 43). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Asana carries 1,843 GitHub stars across 34 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. BigCommerce shows 3,505 stars across 281 public repos, 25 active in the last 90 days and 51 external contributors.

Asana is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. BigCommerce looks better where momentum 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricAsanaBigCommerce
Ranking
Overall rank#338#103
Pillars
Overall4355
Code4973
Education7069
Community2948
Reach3826
Momentum1664
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars1,8433,505
Forks5983,972
Public repos34281
Active repos (90d)825
External contributors251
Avg polish4473
Avg AI-readiness4342

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