Close vs TaxJar

Close (The inside sales CRM of choice for SMBs) and TaxJar (Making sales tax filing easier for more than 20,000 online sellers and merchants across the world.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Close (rank #298) holds a modest lead over TaxJar (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (45 vs 31). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. TaxJar shows 490 stars across 39 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Close's footprint is roughly 7.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Close is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. TaxJar looks better where code quality 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.