SolarWinds vs Wistia

SolarWinds and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Wistia (rank #278) holds a modest lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 35). The gap of 11 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 Wistia. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Wistia is clearly ahead of SolarWinds. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SolarWinds is ahead of Wistia. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Wistia is slightly ahead of SolarWinds. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SolarWinds is clearly ahead of Wistia.

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. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

SolarWinds is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Wistia 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.