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Asana vs Perk

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

Asana and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Asana (rank #338) holds a narrow lead over Perk (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 42). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Asana is slightly ahead of Perk. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Asana is ahead of Perk. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Perk is ahead of Asana. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Asana is slightly ahead of Perk. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Perk 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. Perk shows 34 stars across 25 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Asana's footprint is roughly 54.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Asana is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Perk 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

MetricAsanaPerk
Ranking
Overall rank#338#372
Pillars
Overall4342
Code4944
Education7054
Community2938
Reach3830
Momentum1648
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars1,84334
Forks59811
Public repos3425
Active repos (90d)85
External contributors26
Avg polish4433
Avg AI-readiness4338

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