Rippling vs Workato

Rippling (We make it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers, and apps.) and Workato (The Enterprise Automation Platform for powerful integrations and automations) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Rippling (rank #455) holds a narrow lead over Workato (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (39 vs 33). 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), Rippling is slightly ahead of Workato. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Workato is ahead of Rippling. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Rippling is ahead of Workato. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Rippling is slightly ahead of Workato. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Rippling is slightly ahead of Workato.

Rippling carries 156 GitHub stars across 11 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors on record. Workato shows 112 stars across 67 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors.

Rippling is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Workato looks better where education 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.