Remote vs Taiga.io

Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) and Taiga.io (Your Agile, Free and Open Source Project Management Tool) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Taiga.io (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 32). The gap of 14 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 Taiga.io. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is clearly ahead of Taiga.io. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Remote is slightly ahead of Taiga.io. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Taiga.io is ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Remote is ahead of Taiga.io.

Remote carries 811 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Taiga.io shows 3,457 stars across 19 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Taiga.io's footprint is roughly 4.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Taiga.io 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.