Kajabi vs Rippling

Kajabi and Rippling (We make it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers, and apps.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Rippling (rank #455) holds a narrow lead over Kajabi (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (39 vs 32). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Kajabi carries 99 GitHub stars across 103 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors on record. Rippling shows 156 stars across 11 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors.

Kajabi is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Rippling looks better where reach 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.