Fivetran vs Remote

Fivetran and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over Fivetran (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 43). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Fivetran carries 13,433 GitHub stars across 314 public repos, with 84 repositories active in the last 90 days and 40 external contributors on record. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Fivetran's footprint is roughly 16.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Fivetran is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Remote 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.