Formbricks vs Yoast

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and Yoast (This is where the Yoast.com team shares its public code: from our WordPress plugins to other small projects.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Yoast (rank #209) holds a narrow lead over Formbricks (rank #237) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 48). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Yoast is ahead of Formbricks. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Yoast is slightly ahead of Formbricks. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Formbricks is slightly ahead of Yoast. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Formbricks is ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Yoast 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. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 3.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formbricks is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Yoast 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.