Proton Mail vs SAP

Proton Mail and SAP (SAP SE, a global software company, is one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise applications.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

SAP (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Proton Mail (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 41). 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), SAP is ahead of Proton Mail. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SAP is ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SAP is ahead of Proton Mail. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Proton Mail is clearly ahead of SAP. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SAP is slightly ahead of Proton Mail.

Proton Mail carries 16,265 GitHub stars across 186 public repos, with 19 repositories active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors on record. SAP shows 12,850 stars across 309 public repos, 96 active in the last 90 days and 60 external contributors.

Proton Mail is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. SAP 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.