Marqeta vs Pinterest

Marqeta and Pinterest (Pinterest's Open Source Projects) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Pinterest (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over Marqeta (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 32). 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), Pinterest is clearly ahead of Marqeta. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Marqeta is slightly ahead of Pinterest. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Pinterest is clearly ahead of Marqeta. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Marqeta is ahead of Pinterest. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Pinterest is clearly ahead of Marqeta.

Marqeta carries 84 GitHub stars across 18 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Pinterest shows 30,737 stars across 98 public repos, 37 active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pinterest's footprint is roughly 365.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Marqeta is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Pinterest 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.