Culture Amp vs Slab

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Slab (Making the workplace a source of learning and purpose through knowledge-sharing. We're hiring!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Slab (rank #455) holds a narrow lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (39 vs 31). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Slab shows 49,433 stars across 28 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 8 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Slab's footprint is roughly 41.1x 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. Slab 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.