Avalara vs Odoo

Avalara and Odoo (Open Source Business Apps) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Odoo (rank #485) holds a narrow lead over Avalara (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (38 vs 31). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Odoo is slightly ahead of Avalara. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Avalara is slightly ahead of Odoo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Odoo is clearly ahead of Avalara. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Odoo is slightly ahead of Avalara. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Odoo 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. Odoo shows 59,467 stars across 43 public repos, 25 active in the last 90 days and 257 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Odoo's footprint is roughly 2831.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Avalara is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Odoo looks better where community 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.