Box vs Sprout Social

Box (Box, Inc.) and Sprout Social both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Box (rank #93) holds a modest lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 41). The gap of 15 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 Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Box is ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Box is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Box is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social is clearly ahead of Box.

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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Box's footprint is roughly 45.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Box is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Sprout Social 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.