Avalara vs Grammarly

Avalara and Grammarly (Millions of users rely on Grammarly's AI-powered products to make their messages, documents, and social media posts clear, mistake-free, and impactful.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Grammarly (rank #600) holds a narrow lead over Avalara (rank #696) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (34 vs 31). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Grammarly is slightly ahead of Avalara. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Avalara is slightly ahead of Grammarly. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Grammarly is ahead of Avalara. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Grammarly is ahead of Avalara. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Grammarly 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. Grammarly shows 4,356 stars across 23 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Grammarly's footprint is roughly 207.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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