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Gravity Forms vs Perk

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Perk (rank #372) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 32). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Perk shows 34 stars across 25 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Gravity Forms's footprint is roughly 3.3x 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. Perk 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricGravity FormsPerk
Ranking
Overall rank#662#372
Pillars
Overall3242
Code2144
Education7854
Community1238
Reach2930
Momentum4048
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars11234
Forks6611
Public repos825
Active repos (90d)25
External contributors16
Avg polish2433
Avg AI-readiness838

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