Avalara vs Dashlane

Avalara and Dashlane (Simple and secure access to all your online accounts. At work, home, and everywhere in between.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Dashlane (rank #536) holds a narrow lead over Avalara (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (36 vs 31). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Dashlane is ahead of Avalara. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Avalara is slightly ahead of Dashlane. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Dashlane is ahead of Avalara. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Dashlane is clearly ahead of Avalara. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Dashlane 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. Dashlane shows 1,223 stars across 46 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Dashlane's footprint is roughly 58.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Avalara is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Dashlane 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.