Culture Amp vs Pleo

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

Pleo (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 Pleo. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Pleo is ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Culture Amp is slightly ahead of Pleo. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Culture Amp is ahead of Pleo. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Pleo is clearly 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. Pleo shows 36 stars across 34 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 8 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Culture Amp's footprint is roughly 33.4x 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. Pleo 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.