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Formbricks vs Increase

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over Formbricks (rank #237) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 48). 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 slightly ahead of Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Formbricks is slightly ahead of Increase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of Formbricks. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of Formbricks. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Increase is 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. Increase shows 45 stars across 12 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 281.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formbricks is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Increase 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricFormbricksIncrease
Ranking
Overall rank#237#55
Pillars
Overall4860
Code5352
Education6759
Community4768
Reach3679
Momentum2443
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars12,67545
Forks2,45915
Public repos1812
Active repos (90d)911
External contributors65
Avg polish5748
Avg AI-readiness3747

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