Formbricks vs Gainsight

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and Gainsight both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a modest lead over Gainsight (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 36). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Formbricks carries 12,675 GitHub stars across 18 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Gainsight shows 5 stars across 6 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 2535.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formbricks is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Gainsight 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.