Culture Amp vs Factorial

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Factorial (HR Software for small and medium companies) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Factorial (rank #237) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 31). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Culture Amp carries 1,202 GitHub stars across 179 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors on record. Factorial shows 117 stars across 70 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 53 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Culture Amp's footprint is roughly 10.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Factorial 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.