Mattermost vs Rippling

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and Rippling (We make it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers, and apps.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #40) holds a meaningful lead over Rippling (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 39). The gap of 23 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 Rippling. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Mattermost is ahead of Rippling. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mattermost is ahead of Rippling. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Rippling. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Rippling.

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. Rippling shows 156 stars across 11 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 319.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Rippling makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.