ForestAdmin vs Kajabi

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

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Kajabi (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 32). The gap of 19 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 Kajabi. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Kajabi. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), ForestAdmin is ahead of Kajabi. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Kajabi. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Kajabi is 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. Kajabi shows 99 stars across 103 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 34.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Kajabi 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.