BigCommerce vs Kajabi

BigCommerce and Kajabi both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

BigCommerce (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Kajabi (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 32). 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), BigCommerce is clearly ahead of Kajabi. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), BigCommerce is ahead of Kajabi. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), BigCommerce is clearly ahead of Kajabi. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), BigCommerce is ahead of Kajabi. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), BigCommerce is ahead of Kajabi.

BigCommerce carries 3,505 GitHub stars across 281 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 51 external contributors on record. Kajabi shows 99 stars across 103 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but BigCommerce's footprint is roughly 35.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

BigCommerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Kajabi makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.