Okta, Inc vs Salesforce

Okta, Inc 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.

Okta, Inc (rank #73) holds a narrow lead over Salesforce (rank #82) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (58 vs 57). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Okta, Inc carries 6,250 GitHub stars across 88 public repos, with 44 repositories active in the last 90 days and 52 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 11.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Okta, Inc is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Salesforce looks better where community 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.