Cloudbeds vs ForestAdmin

Cloudbeds 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 #151) holds a meaningful lead over Cloudbeds (rank #727) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (52 vs 30). The gap of 22 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Cloudbeds carries 49 GitHub stars across 29 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. ForestAdmin shows 3,416 stars across 87 public repos, 13 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 69.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Cloudbeds is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. 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.