Close vs Zoho

Close (The inside sales CRM of choice for SMBs) and Zoho (Unique and powerful suite of software to run your entire business, brought to you by a company with the long term vision to transform the way you work.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Close (rank #298) holds a modest lead over Zoho (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (45 vs 32). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Zoho shows 756 stars across 244 public repos, 55 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Close's footprint is roughly 5.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Close is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Zoho 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.