Mirakl vs OpenCart

Mirakl (The Marketplace Company) and OpenCart (PHP based open source ecommerce platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

OpenCart (rank #401) holds a narrow lead over Mirakl (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 37). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Mirakl is slightly ahead of OpenCart. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), OpenCart is clearly ahead of Mirakl. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), OpenCart is ahead of Mirakl. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), OpenCart is ahead of Mirakl. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mirakl is clearly ahead of OpenCart.

Mirakl carries 110 GitHub stars across 22 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. OpenCart shows 8,157 stars across 2 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but OpenCart's footprint is roughly 74.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mirakl is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. OpenCart 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.