SolarWinds vs Perk

SolarWinds and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Perk (rank #372) holds a narrow lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 35). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

SolarWinds carries 1,101 GitHub stars across 104 public repos, with 35 repositories active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors on record. Perk shows 34 stars across 25 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SolarWinds's footprint is roughly 32.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

SolarWinds is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Perk looks better where community 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.