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Crisp
@crisp-im
Rank #430
Score 40
SaaS

Crisp helps every business deliver a great customer experience. The all-in-one platform for customer support.

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Crisp vs ExpressVPN

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Crisp (Crisp helps every business deliver a great customer experience. The all-in-one platform for customer support.) and ExpressVPN both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Crisp (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over ExpressVPN (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 35). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Crisp carries 506 GitHub stars across 27 public repos, with 12 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. ExpressVPN shows 1,250 stars across 12 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 7 external contributors.

Crisp is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. ExpressVPN 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricCrispExpressVPN
Ranking
Overall rank#430#569
Pillars
Overall4035
Code4957
Education8469
Community2630
Reach448
Momentum2415
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars5061,250
Forks190220
Public repos2712
Active repos (90d)123
External contributors07
Avg polish5263
Avg AI-readiness3429

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