Pendo vs Vidyard

Pendo and Vidyard both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Pendo (rank #485) holds a narrow lead over Vidyard (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (38 vs 31). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Pendo carries 266 GitHub stars across 133 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Vidyard shows 20 stars across 29 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pendo's footprint is roughly 13.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Pendo is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Vidyard looks better where code quality 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.