Odoo vs Shopware

Odoo (Open Source Business Apps) and Shopware (Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 2.500 community extensions) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopware (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Odoo (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 38). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Shopware is ahead of Odoo. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Shopware is ahead of Odoo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Odoo is slightly ahead of Shopware. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Odoo is ahead of Shopware. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Shopware 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. Shopware shows 4,897 stars across 88 public repos, 60 active in the last 90 days and 102 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Odoo's footprint is roughly 12.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Odoo is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Shopware 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.