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Excalidraw vs Klarna

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Klarna both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Klarna (rank #257) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 47). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Excalidraw carries 136,744 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors on record. Klarna shows 2,965 stars across 139 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 46.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Klarna looks better where reach 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricExcalidrawKlarna
Ranking
Overall rank#103#257
Pillars
Overall5547
Code5957
Education6876
Community5231
Reach4564
Momentum616
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars136,7442,965
Forks15,937737
Public repos25139
Active repos (90d)38
External contributors2152
Avg polish5653
Avg AI-readiness3738

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