Gainsight vs Pendo

Gainsight and Pendo both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Gainsight (rank #536) holds a narrow lead over Pendo (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (36 vs 33). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Gainsight carries 5 GitHub stars across 6 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Pendo shows 267 stars across 134 public repos, 18 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pendo's footprint is roughly 53.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gainsight is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Pendo looks better where education 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.