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KAYAK vs Workday

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

KAYAK and Workday both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Workday (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over KAYAK (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 38). 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), KAYAK is slightly ahead of Workday. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Workday is ahead of KAYAK. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Workday is ahead of KAYAK. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), KAYAK is ahead of Workday. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), KAYAK is slightly ahead of Workday.

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. Workday shows 1,102 stars across 57 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors.

KAYAK is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Workday 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

MetricKAYAKWorkday
Ranking
Overall rank#485#278
Pillars
Overall3846
Code5954
Education5979
Community3040
Reach4428
Momentum3632
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars3,1861,102
Forks462580
Public repos7257
Active repos (90d)419
External contributors111
Avg polish5659
Avg AI-readiness4436

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