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Formbricks vs Zoom

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

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and Zoom (Power Up Your Apps with Video, Phone, and Chat) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Zoom (rank #122) holds a narrow lead over Formbricks (rank #237) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 48). The gap of 6 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 Zoom. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Zoom is ahead of Formbricks. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Formbricks is ahead of Zoom. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Zoom is slightly ahead of Formbricks. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zoom 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. Zoom shows 3,380 stars across 159 public repos, 62 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 3.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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

Side-by-side metrics

MetricFormbricksZoom
Ranking
Overall rank#237#122
Pillars
Overall4854
Code5352
Education6778
Community4735
Reach3638
Momentum2477
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars12,6753,380
Forks2,4591,526
Public repos18159
Active repos (90d)962
External contributors64
Avg polish5763
Avg AI-readiness3730

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