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Increase vs Sophos

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

Increase (Build your bank) and Sophos both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Sophos (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 37). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 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 Sophos's footprint is roughly 32.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase 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

MetricIncreaseSophos
Ranking
Overall rank#55#510
Pillars
Overall6037
Code5233
Education5968
Community6833
Reach7911
Momentum4342
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars451,438
Forks15432
Public repos1284
Active repos (90d)117
External contributors52
Avg polish4841
Avg AI-readiness4722

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