Salesforce vs Sprout Social

Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) and Sprout Social both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a modest lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 41). The gap of 16 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 Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Salesforce is ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sprout Social is slightly ahead of Salesforce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social is slightly ahead of Salesforce.

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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 220.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Salesforce is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Sprout Social 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.