ForestAdmin vs Google Workspace

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and Google Workspace (Developer samples for Google Workspace APIs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin and Google Workspace sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (51), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

ForestAdmin carries 3,415 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors on record. Google Workspace shows 48,567 stars across 57 public repos, 18 active in the last 90 days and 37 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Google Workspace's footprint is roughly 14.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Google Workspace 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.