Remote vs Zammad

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

Zammad (rank #152) holds a narrow lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (52 vs 46). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Remote carries 811 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Zammad shows 6,394 stars across 11 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 27 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Zammad's footprint is roughly 7.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Zammad looks better where community 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.