Formbricks vs UserTesting

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and UserTesting (Real. Human. Insight.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a modest lead over UserTesting (rank #691) 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 UserTesting. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Formbricks is slightly ahead of UserTesting. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Formbricks is clearly ahead of UserTesting. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Formbricks is slightly ahead of UserTesting. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Formbricks is clearly ahead of UserTesting.

Formbricks carries 12,727 GitHub stars across 18 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. UserTesting shows 15 stars across 119 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 848.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formbricks is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. UserTesting 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.