Gravity Forms vs Panther Labs

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Panther Labs (Panther's mission is to make security teams smarter and faster than attackers.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Panther Labs (rank #209) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 32). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Panther Labs shows 668 stars across 25 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Panther Labs's footprint is roughly 6.0x 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. Panther Labs 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.