Avalara vs SAP

Avalara and SAP (SAP SE, a global software company, is one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise applications.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

SAP (rank #122) holds a meaningful lead over Avalara (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 31). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), SAP is clearly ahead of Avalara. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SAP is slightly ahead of Avalara. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SAP is clearly ahead of Avalara. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Avalara is slightly ahead of SAP. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SAP 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. SAP shows 12,850 stars across 309 public repos, 96 active in the last 90 days and 60 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SAP's footprint is roughly 611.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Avalara is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. SAP 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.