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HubSpot vs Sophos

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

HubSpot and Sophos both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

HubSpot (rank #93) holds a modest lead over Sophos (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 37). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Sophos shows 1,438 stars across 84 public repos, 7 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but HubSpot's footprint is roughly 37.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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

Side-by-side metrics

MetricHubSpotSophos
Ranking
Overall rank#93#510
Pillars
Overall5637
Code5533
Education5268
Community3533
Reach9511
Momentum5442
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars53,4811,438
Forks6,864432
Public repos38184
Active repos (90d)357
External contributors42
Avg polish5341
Avg AI-readiness3722

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