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Discord vs Sophos

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 Sophos both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Sophos (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 37). The gap of 18 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Sophos shows 1,438 stars across 84 public repos, 7 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 19.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Sophos 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

MetricDiscordSophos
Ranking
Overall rank#103#510
Pillars
Overall5537
Code5433
Education8468
Community4933
Reach4511
Momentum7042
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars28,5701,438
Forks5,687432
Public repos32784
Active repos (90d)367
External contributors412
Avg polish5341
Avg AI-readiness3722

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