Remote vs Sophos

Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) and Sophos both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Sophos (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 37). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Remote carries 811 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Sophos shows 1,438 stars across 84 public repos, 7 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Sophos makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.