Elementor vs ForestAdmin

Elementor and ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a narrow lead over Elementor (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 44). 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), ForestAdmin is ahead of Elementor. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is ahead of Elementor. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Elementor is clearly ahead of ForestAdmin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of Elementor. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), ForestAdmin is ahead of Elementor.

Elementor carries 10,938 GitHub stars across 67 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 45 external contributors on record. ForestAdmin shows 3,415 stars across 87 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Elementor's footprint is roughly 3.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Elementor is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. ForestAdmin 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.