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Discord vs Formbricks

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) and Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Formbricks (rank #237) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 48). 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), Discord is slightly ahead of Formbricks. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Discord is ahead of Formbricks. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Discord is slightly ahead of Formbricks. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Discord is ahead of Formbricks. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Discord is clearly ahead of Formbricks.

Discord carries 28,570 GitHub stars across 327 public repos, with 36 repositories active in the last 90 days and 41 external contributors on record. Formbricks shows 12,675 stars across 18 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Formbricks makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricDiscordFormbricks
Ranking
Overall rank#103#237
Pillars
Overall5548
Code5453
Education8467
Community4947
Reach4536
Momentum7024
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars28,57012,675
Forks5,6872,459
Public repos32718
Active repos (90d)369
External contributors416
Avg polish5357
Avg AI-readiness3737

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