SolarWinds vs Zoom

SolarWinds and Zoom (Power Up Your Apps with Video, Phone, and Chat) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Zoom (rank #122) holds a modest lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 35). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Zoom shows 3,380 stars across 159 public repos, 62 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Zoom's footprint is roughly 3.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

SolarWinds is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Zoom 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.