Sophos vs Perk

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

Perk (rank #372) holds a narrow lead over Sophos (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 37). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Sophos carries 1,438 GitHub stars across 84 public repos, with 7 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 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 Sophos's footprint is roughly 42.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Sophos is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Perk looks better where reach 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.