Sage vs Shopware

Sage and Shopware (Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 2.500 community extensions) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopware (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Sage (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 33). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Sage is slightly ahead of Shopware. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Shopware is ahead of Sage. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Shopware is ahead of Sage. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sage is slightly ahead of Shopware. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Shopware 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. Shopware shows 4,897 stars across 88 public repos, 60 active in the last 90 days and 102 external contributors.

Sage is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Shopware 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.