SolarWinds vs Workato

SolarWinds and Workato (The Enterprise Automation Platform for powerful integrations and automations) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

SolarWinds (rank #569) holds a narrow lead over Workato (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (35 vs 33). The gap of 2 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 Workato. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Workato is clearly ahead of SolarWinds. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SolarWinds is ahead of Workato. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Workato is ahead of SolarWinds. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SolarWinds is clearly ahead of Workato.

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. Workato shows 112 stars across 67 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SolarWinds's footprint is roughly 9.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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