Formspark vs Open edX

Formspark and Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formspark and Open edX sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (42), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Open edX is ahead of Formspark. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Formspark is clearly ahead of Open edX. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Open edX is ahead of Formspark. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Open edX is ahead of Formspark. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Open edX is ahead of Formspark.

Formspark carries 67 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Open edX shows 10,654 stars across 186 public repos, 100 active in the last 90 days and 91 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Open edX's footprint is roughly 159.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formspark is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Open edX looks better where community 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.