Sage vs SAP

Sage and SAP (SAP SE, a global software company, is one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise applications.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

SAP (rank #122) holds a meaningful lead over Sage (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 33). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Sage carries 2,180 GitHub stars across 122 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors on record. SAP shows 12,850 stars across 309 public repos, 96 active in the last 90 days and 60 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SAP's footprint is roughly 5.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Sage is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. SAP looks better where momentum 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.