Culture Amp vs Gusto

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Gusto both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Gusto (rank #338) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 31). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Gusto is slightly ahead of Culture Amp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gusto is ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Gusto is ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Culture Amp is slightly ahead of Gusto. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Gusto is slightly 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. Gusto shows 781 stars across 148 public repos, 20 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Gusto 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.