Grammarly vs Pendo

Grammarly (Millions of users rely on Grammarly's AI-powered products to make their messages, documents, and social media posts clear, mistake-free, and impactful.) and Pendo both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Pendo (rank #485) holds a narrow lead over Grammarly (rank #601) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (38 vs 34). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Grammarly carries 4,356 GitHub stars across 23 public repos, with 0 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Pendo shows 266 stars across 133 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 Grammarly's footprint is roughly 16.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Grammarly is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Pendo 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.