SAP vs Starling Bank

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

SAP (rank #122) holds a meaningful lead over Starling Bank (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 clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SAP is slightly ahead of Starling Bank. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SAP is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Starling Bank is clearly ahead of SAP. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SAP is slightly ahead of Starling Bank.

SAP carries 12,850 GitHub stars across 309 public repos, with 96 repositories active in the last 90 days and 60 external contributors on record. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SAP's footprint is roughly 65.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

SAP is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank looks better where reach 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.