Culture Amp vs Sprout Social

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

Sprout Social (rank #401) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 31). The gap of 10 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 Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Sprout Social is slightly ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Culture Amp is slightly ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sprout Social is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social 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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Culture Amp's footprint is roughly 3.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Sprout Social 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.