Culture Amp vs Metabase

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

Metabase (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 31). The gap of 20 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Culture Amp is slightly ahead of Metabase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Metabase is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Metabase is ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Metabase is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Metabase 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. Metabase shows 50,225 stars across 100 public repos, 21 active in the last 90 days and 49 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Metabase's footprint is roughly 41.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Metabase 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.