Remote vs Workato

Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) and Workato (The Enterprise Automation Platform for powerful integrations and automations) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Workato (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 33). The gap of 13 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 Workato. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is slightly ahead of Workato. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Remote is clearly ahead of Workato. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Workato is clearly ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Remote is clearly ahead of Workato.

Remote carries 811 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Workato shows 112 stars across 67 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Remote's footprint is roughly 7.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Workato 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.