Sprout Social vs Perk

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

Perk (rank #372) holds a narrow lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 41). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Sprout Social carries 313 GitHub stars across 68 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 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 Sprout Social's footprint is roughly 9.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Sprout Social 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.