Coursera vs Formbricks

Coursera and Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a modest lead over Coursera (rank #726) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 30). The gap of 18 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Coursera carries 1,367 GitHub stars across 81 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Formbricks shows 12,727 stars across 18 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 9.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Coursera is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Formbricks looks better where education 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.