Culture Amp vs Marqeta

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

Marqeta (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Culture Amp (rank #696) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 31). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Culture Amp carries 1,202 GitHub stars across 179 public repos, with 15 repositories active in the last 90 days and 16 external contributors on record. Marqeta shows 84 stars across 18 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Culture Amp's footprint is roughly 14.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Marqeta 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.