Open edX vs Teamtailor

Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) and Teamtailor (The all-in-one recruitment and marketing platform. Hiring doesn't get any easier than this. Trusted by over over 125,000 recruiters) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Open edX (rank #372) holds a modest lead over Teamtailor (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 30). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Open edX carries 10,654 GitHub stars across 186 public repos, with 100 repositories active in the last 90 days and 91 external contributors on record. Teamtailor shows 29 stars across 77 public repos, 10 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Open edX's footprint is roughly 367.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Open edX is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Teamtailor looks better where reach 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.