Element vs monday.com

Element (Founded by the creators of Matrix, we build digitally sovereign, secure and interoperable real-time communication solutions for large organisations.) and monday.com (Developer resources and open-source software projects made available by monday.com) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Element (rank #189) holds a narrow lead over monday.com (rank #237) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (50 vs 48). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Element is ahead of monday.com. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Element is slightly ahead of monday.com. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Element is ahead of monday.com. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Element is clearly ahead of monday.com.

Element carries 34,608 GitHub stars across 137 public repos, with 33 repositories active in the last 90 days and 97 external contributors on record. monday.com shows 1,854 stars across 46 public repos, 16 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Element's footprint is roughly 18.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Element is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. monday.com 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.