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Box vs Culture Amp

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Box (Box, Inc.) and Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Box (rank #93) holds a meaningful lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 31). The gap of 25 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Box is ahead of Culture Amp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Box is ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Box is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Box is clearly ahead of Culture Amp.

Box carries 14,074 GitHub stars across 84 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 33 external contributors on record. Culture Amp shows 1,202 stars across 179 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Box's footprint is roughly 11.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Box is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Culture Amp 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricBoxCulture Amp
Ranking
Overall rank#93#693
Pillars
Overall5631
Code6853
Education6649
Community5124
Reach6220
Momentum3131
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars14,0741,202
Forks3,717123
Public repos84179
Active repos (90d)1817
External contributors3318
Avg polish6751
Avg AI-readiness4538

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