Box vs Grammarly

Box (Box, Inc.) and Grammarly (Millions of users rely on Grammarly's AI-powered products to make their messages, documents, and social media posts clear, mistake-free, and impactful.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Box (rank #93) holds a meaningful lead over Grammarly (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 34). The gap of 22 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Grammarly shows 4,355 stars across 23 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Box's footprint is roughly 3.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Box is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Grammarly 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.