Salesforce vs Smartsheet

Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a modest lead over Smartsheet (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 43). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Salesforce carries 68,892 GitHub stars across 417 public repos, with 75 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 459.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Salesforce is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Smartsheet 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.