Gravity Forms vs KAYAK

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and KAYAK both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

KAYAK (rank #485) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (38 vs 32). 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), KAYAK is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gravity Forms is ahead of KAYAK. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), KAYAK is ahead of Gravity Forms. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), KAYAK is ahead of Gravity Forms. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Gravity Forms is slightly ahead of KAYAK.

Gravity Forms carries 112 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 2 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. KAYAK shows 3,186 stars across 72 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but KAYAK's footprint is roughly 28.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. KAYAK looks better where code quality 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.