Element vs Sprout Social

Element (Founded by the creators of Matrix, we build digitally sovereign, secure and interoperable real-time communication solutions for large organisations.) and Sprout Social both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Element (rank #190) holds a modest lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (50 vs 41). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Element is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Element is slightly ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Element is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Element is ahead of Sprout Social.

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. 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 Element's footprint is roughly 110.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Element is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Sprout Social 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.