KAYAK vs Salesforce

KAYAK and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a modest lead over KAYAK (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 38). 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), Salesforce is slightly ahead of KAYAK. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Salesforce is ahead of KAYAK. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is clearly ahead of KAYAK. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), KAYAK is slightly ahead of Salesforce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Salesforce is ahead of KAYAK.

KAYAK carries 3,186 GitHub stars across 72 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 21.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

KAYAK is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Salesforce looks better where community 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.