Mattermost vs Sprout Social

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

Mattermost (rank #38) holds a meaningful lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 41). The gap of 21 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 Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Mattermost is ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mattermost is ahead of Sprout Social.

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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 159.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Sprout Social 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.