Excalidraw vs Palo Alto Networks

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Palo Alto Networks (We ensure each day is safer and more secure than the one before.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Palo Alto Networks (rank #93) holds a narrow lead over Excalidraw (rank #103) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 55). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Palo Alto Networks is ahead of Excalidraw. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Palo Alto Networks. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Palo Alto Networks. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Palo Alto Networks is clearly 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. Palo Alto Networks shows 6,403 stars across 525 public repos, 66 active in the last 90 days and 13 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 21.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Palo Alto Networks looks better where momentum 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.