Gainsight vs Semrush

Gainsight and Semrush (We do love open source and have an opportunity to make it better from now.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Semrush (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Gainsight (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 36). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Gainsight carries 5 GitHub stars across 6 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Semrush shows 454 stars across 11 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 7 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Semrush's footprint is roughly 90.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gainsight is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Semrush 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.