Proton Mail vs SoundCloud

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

Proton Mail (rank #401) holds a narrow lead over SoundCloud (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 36). 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), Proton Mail is clearly ahead of SoundCloud. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SoundCloud is ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Proton Mail is slightly ahead of SoundCloud. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), SoundCloud is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Proton Mail is ahead of SoundCloud.

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. SoundCloud shows 8,606 stars across 56 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors.

Proton Mail is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. SoundCloud 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.