Salesforce vs Stripe Samples

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

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a narrow lead over Stripe Samples (rank #141) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 53). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Stripe Samples shows 4,227 stars across 30 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 8 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 16.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Salesforce is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Stripe Samples 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.