kununu vs Perk

kununu (Let's make work better.) and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Perk (rank #372) holds a narrow lead over kununu (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 34). 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), kununu is ahead of Perk. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Perk is ahead of kununu. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Perk is clearly ahead of kununu. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), kununu is ahead of Perk. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Perk is ahead of kununu.

kununu carries 132 GitHub stars across 40 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Perk shows 34 stars across 25 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but kununu's footprint is roughly 3.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

kununu is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Perk 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.