Sprout Social vs UserTesting

Sprout Social and UserTesting (Real. Human. Insight.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Sprout Social (rank #399) holds a modest lead over UserTesting (rank #692) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 31). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. UserTesting shows 15 stars across 119 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Sprout Social's footprint is roughly 20.9x 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. UserTesting 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.