Increase vs Sprout Social

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

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 41). 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), Increase is slightly ahead of Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Increase is slightly ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social is ahead of Increase.

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Sprout Social's footprint is roughly 7.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Sprout Social looks better where momentum 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.