Excalidraw vs SAP

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and SAP (SAP SE, a global software company, is one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise applications.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over SAP (rank #122) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 54). 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), SAP is ahead of Excalidraw. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of SAP. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SAP is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of SAP. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SAP 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. SAP shows 12,850 stars across 309 public repos, 96 active in the last 90 days and 60 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 10.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. SAP 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.