Braze vs Gravity Forms

Braze (Braze, Inc.) and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Braze (rank #401) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 32). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Braze carries 488 GitHub stars across 136 public repos, with 22 repositories active in the last 90 days and 10 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Braze's footprint is roughly 4.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Braze is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Gravity Forms 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.