ForestAdmin vs Zscaler, Inc.

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

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a narrow lead over Zscaler, Inc. (rank #298) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 45). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Zscaler, Inc. is ahead of ForestAdmin. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is ahead of Zscaler, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Zscaler, Inc. is ahead of ForestAdmin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Zscaler, Inc. is slightly ahead of ForestAdmin. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zscaler, Inc. 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. Zscaler, Inc. shows 337 stars across 58 public repos, 33 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 10.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Zscaler, Inc. 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.