Culture Amp vs Stripe Samples

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Stripe Samples (Sample integrations built by Stripe.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Stripe Samples (rank #141) holds a meaningful lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (53 vs 31). The gap of 22 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Stripe Samples is ahead of Culture Amp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Stripe Samples is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Stripe Samples is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Culture Amp is ahead of Stripe Samples. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Stripe Samples 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. Stripe Samples shows 4,227 stars across 30 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 8 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Stripe Samples's footprint is roughly 3.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Stripe Samples 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.