Pendo vs Smartsheet

Pendo and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Smartsheet (rank #338) holds a modest lead over Pendo (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 33). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Pendo carries 267 GitHub stars across 134 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors.

Pendo is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Smartsheet 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.