Proton Mail vs SolarWinds

Proton Mail and SolarWinds both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Proton Mail (rank #401) holds a narrow lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 35). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Proton Mail is ahead of SolarWinds. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SolarWinds is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Proton Mail is ahead of SolarWinds. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Proton Mail is ahead of SolarWinds. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SolarWinds is 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. 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 Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 14.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Proton Mail is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. 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.