Mattermost vs Workato

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and Workato (The Enterprise Automation Platform for powerful integrations and automations) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #38) holds a meaningful lead over Workato (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 Workato. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Workato is slightly ahead of Mattermost. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Workato. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Workato. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Workato.

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. Workato shows 112 stars across 67 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 445.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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