Onfido vs Proton Mail

Onfido and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Onfido and Proton Mail sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (41), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Onfido carries 1,268 GitHub stars across 85 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 12.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Onfido is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Proton Mail looks better where momentum 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.