Remote vs Sprout Social

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

Remote (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 41). 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), Remote is slightly ahead of Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Remote is ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sprout Social is clearly ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social is ahead of Remote.

Remote carries 811 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Sprout Social looks better where reach 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.