Crisp vs Frappe

Crisp (Crisp helps every business deliver a great customer experience. The all-in-one platform for customer support.) and Frappe (We build world class open-source software products.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Frappe (rank #141) holds a modest lead over Crisp (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (53 vs 40). 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), Frappe is ahead of Crisp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Crisp is slightly ahead of Frappe. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Frappe is clearly ahead of Crisp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Frappe is ahead of Crisp. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Frappe is clearly ahead of Crisp.

Crisp carries 506 GitHub stars across 27 public repos, with 12 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Frappe shows 107,553 stars across 207 public repos, 62 active in the last 90 days and 174 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Frappe's footprint is roughly 212.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Crisp is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Frappe looks better where momentum 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.