beehiiv vs Formbricks

beehiiv (Next-gen newsletter platform on a mission to help creators and businesses seamlessly create, monetize, and grow their audiences.) and Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a modest lead over beehiiv (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 37). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Formbricks is ahead of beehiiv. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), beehiiv is slightly ahead of Formbricks. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Formbricks is clearly ahead of beehiiv. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), beehiiv is ahead of Formbricks. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Formbricks is ahead of beehiiv.

beehiiv carries 33 GitHub stars across 13 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Formbricks shows 12,675 stars across 18 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 384.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

beehiiv is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Formbricks 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.