Stripe vs Zammad

Stripe and Zammad both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Stripe (rank #1) holds a meaningful lead over Zammad (rank #152) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (76 vs 52). The gap of 24 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Stripe carries 44,519 GitHub stars across 97 public repos, with 64 repositories active in the last 90 days and 124 external contributors on record. Zammad shows 6,394 stars across 11 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 27 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Stripe's footprint is roughly 7.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Stripe is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Zammad 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.