Smartsheet vs Workday

Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) and Workday both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Workday (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over Smartsheet (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 43). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Smartsheet carries 150 GitHub stars across 11 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors on record. Workday shows 1,102 stars across 57 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Workday's footprint is roughly 7.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Smartsheet is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Workday looks better where code quality 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.