Pendo vs Wistia

Pendo and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Wistia (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Pendo (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 33). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Wistia is ahead of Pendo. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Wistia is ahead of Pendo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Pendo is clearly ahead of Wistia. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Wistia is ahead of Pendo. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Wistia 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. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

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