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Mattermost vs Metabase

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

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and Metabase both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #38) holds a modest lead over Metabase (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 51). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Mattermost carries 49,882 GitHub stars across 262 public repos, with 58 repositories active in the last 90 days and 105 external contributors on record. Metabase shows 50,225 stars across 100 public repos, 21 active in the last 90 days and 49 external contributors.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Metabase 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

MetricMattermostMetabase
Ranking
Overall rank#38#165
Pillars
Overall6251
Code7849
Education6680
Community4739
Reach7941
Momentum7761
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars49,88250,225
Forks17,6587,167
Public repos262100
Active repos (90d)5821
External contributors10549
Avg polish8850
Avg AI-readiness4630

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