ForestAdmin vs Kandji

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

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a meaningful lead over Kandji (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 30). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Kandji. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Kandji. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of Kandji. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of Kandji. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Kandji 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. Kandji shows 387 stars across 7 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 8.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Kandji 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.