HubSpot vs Salesforce

HubSpot and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a narrow lead over HubSpot (rank #93) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 56). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

HubSpot is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Salesforce 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.