HubSpot vs Shopware

HubSpot and Shopware (Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 2.500 community extensions) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

HubSpot (rank #93) holds a modest lead over Shopware (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 44). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Shopware shows 4,897 stars across 88 public repos, 60 active in the last 90 days and 102 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but HubSpot's footprint is roughly 10.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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