Open edX vs Zoom

Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) and Zoom (Power Up Your Apps with Video, Phone, and Chat) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Zoom (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Open edX (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 42). 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 ahead of Zoom. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Zoom is clearly ahead of Open edX. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Open edX is ahead of Zoom. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Zoom is clearly ahead of Open edX. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zoom is ahead of Open edX.

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. Zoom shows 3,380 stars across 159 public repos, 62 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Open edX's footprint is roughly 3.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Open edX is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Zoom looks better where education 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.