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Formbricks vs tray.ai
Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.
Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and tray.ai both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.
Formbricks (rank #237) holds a modest lead over tray.ai (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 31). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.
On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Formbricks is ahead of tray.ai. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Formbricks is slightly ahead of tray.ai. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Formbricks is clearly ahead of tray.ai. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Formbricks is clearly ahead of tray.ai. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Formbricks is slightly ahead of tray.ai.
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. tray.ai shows 300 stars across 49 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 42.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.
Formbricks is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. tray.ai makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. 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
| Metric | Formbricks | tray.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Ranking | ||
| Overall rank | #237 | #693 |
| Pillars | ||
| Overall | 48 | 31 |
| Code | 53 | 43 |
| Education | 67 | 61 |
| Community | 47 | 18 |
| Reach | 36 | 4 |
| Momentum | 24 | 17 |
| Builder experience | 0 | 0 |
| Signals | ||
| Stars | 12,675 | 300 |
| Forks | 2,459 | 109 |
| Public repos | 18 | 49 |
| Active repos (90d) | 9 | 2 |
| External contributors | 6 | 1 |
| Avg polish | 57 | 42 |
| Avg AI-readiness | 37 | 33 |