Pinterest vs SolarWinds

Pinterest (Pinterest's Open Source Projects) and SolarWinds both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Pinterest (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 35). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Pinterest carries 30,737 GitHub stars across 98 public repos, with 37 repositories active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors on record. SolarWinds shows 1,101 stars across 104 public repos, 35 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pinterest's footprint is roughly 27.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Pinterest is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. SolarWinds looks better where momentum 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.