Culture Amp vs Pendo

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

Pendo (rank #485) holds a narrow lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (38 vs 31). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Pendo shows 266 stars across 133 public repos, 18 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Culture Amp's footprint is roughly 4.5x 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. Pendo looks better where community 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.