Mattermost vs Zoom

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and Zoom (Power Up Your Apps with Video, Phone, and Chat) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #38) holds a narrow lead over Zoom (rank #122) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 54). The gap of 8 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 Zoom. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Zoom is ahead of Mattermost. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mattermost is ahead of Zoom. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Zoom.

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. Zoom shows 3,380 stars across 159 public repos, 62 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 14.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Zoom 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.