Close vs Salesforce

Close (The inside sales CRM of choice for SMBs) and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a modest lead over Close (rank #298) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 45). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 17.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Close is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Salesforce 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.