ForestAdmin vs HubSpot

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

HubSpot (rank #93) holds a narrow lead over ForestAdmin (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 51). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), ForestAdmin is ahead of HubSpot. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of HubSpot. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), HubSpot is slightly ahead of ForestAdmin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), HubSpot is clearly ahead of ForestAdmin. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), HubSpot 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. HubSpot shows 53,481 stars across 381 public repos, 35 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but HubSpot's footprint is roughly 15.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. HubSpot looks better where reach 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.