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Mattermost vs Sage

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 Sage both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #38) holds a meaningful lead over Sage (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 33). The gap of 29 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 Sage. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Mattermost is ahead of Sage. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mattermost is ahead of Sage. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Sage. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Sage.

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. Sage shows 2,180 stars across 122 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 22.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Sage 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricMattermostSage
Ranking
Overall rank#38#625
Pillars
Overall6233
Code7856
Education6652
Community4734
Reach7923
Momentum7712
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars49,8822,180
Forks17,658430
Public repos262122
Active repos (90d)586
External contributors10522
Avg polish8852
Avg AI-readiness4638

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