Fivetran vs Smartsheet

Fivetran and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Fivetran and Smartsheet sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (43), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

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. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Fivetran's footprint is roughly 89.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Fivetran is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Smartsheet 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.