Odoo vs Salesforce

Odoo (Open Source Business Apps) and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a modest lead over Odoo (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 38). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Odoo carries 59,467 GitHub stars across 43 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 257 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Odoo is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Salesforce looks better where code quality 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.