Close vs ForestAdmin

Close (The inside sales CRM of choice for SMBs) and ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a narrow lead over Close (rank #298) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 45). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Close carries 3,871 GitHub stars across 190 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 10 external contributors on record. ForestAdmin shows 3,415 stars across 87 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors.

Close is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. ForestAdmin looks better where reach 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.