HubSpot vs Rippling

HubSpot and Rippling (We make it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers, and apps.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

HubSpot (rank #93) holds a modest lead over Rippling (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 39). 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), HubSpot is ahead of Rippling. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Rippling is slightly ahead of HubSpot. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), HubSpot is slightly ahead of Rippling. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), HubSpot is clearly ahead of Rippling. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), HubSpot is clearly ahead of Rippling.

HubSpot carries 53,481 GitHub stars across 381 public repos, with 35 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. Rippling shows 156 stars across 11 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but HubSpot's footprint is roughly 342.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

HubSpot is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Rippling 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.