Elementor vs Gravity Forms

Elementor and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Elementor (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 32). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Elementor is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gravity Forms is clearly ahead of Elementor. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Elementor is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Gravity Forms is clearly 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. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Elementor's footprint is roughly 97.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Elementor is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Gravity Forms 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.