Avalara vs BigCommerce

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

BigCommerce (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Avalara (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 31). The gap of 24 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 Avalara. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), BigCommerce is ahead of Avalara. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), BigCommerce is clearly ahead of Avalara. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), BigCommerce is slightly ahead of Avalara. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), BigCommerce is clearly ahead of Avalara.

Avalara carries 21 GitHub stars across 7 public repos, with 0 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. BigCommerce shows 3,505 stars across 281 public repos, 25 active in the last 90 days and 51 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but BigCommerce's footprint is roughly 166.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Avalara is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. 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.