Intercom vs Yoast

Intercom and Yoast (This is where the Yoast.com team shares its public code: from our WordPress plugins to other small projects.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Intercom (rank #82) holds a narrow lead over Yoast (rank #209) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 49). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Intercom carries 3,761 GitHub stars across 190 public repos, with 56 repositories active in the last 90 days and 16 external contributors on record. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors.

Intercom is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Yoast 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.