# kakao — developer ecosystem report

- GitHub org: `kakao`
- Category: ai
- Overall score: 50.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #219
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-22

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 54.0 | #350 | ~22% |
| Education | 44.0 | #887 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 12.0 | #768 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 51.0 | #141 | ~16% |
| Reach | 55.0 | #236 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 50.0 | #222 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/kakao
- Website: http://tech.kakao.com

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 6,092 |
| Forks | 1,155 |
| Open issues | 300 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [khaiii](https://github.com/kakao/khaiii) | 1,450 | Python | Kakao Hangul Analyzer III |
| [n2](https://github.com/kakao/n2) | 582 | Jupyter Notebook | TOROS N2 - lightweight approximate Nearest Neighbor library which runs fast even with large datasets |
| [buffalo](https://github.com/kakao/buffalo) | 579 | Python | TOROS Buffalo: A fast and scalable production-ready open source project for recommender systems |
| [recoteam](https://github.com/kakao/recoteam) | 368 | Jupyter Notebook | 카카오 추천팀 공개 리포지토리입니다. |
| [kanana](https://github.com/kakao/kanana) | 286 | — | Kanana: Compute-efficient Bilingual Language Models |
| [s2graph](https://github.com/kakao/s2graph) | 247 | Scala | This code base is retained for historical interest only, please visit Apache Incubator Repo for latest one  |
| [actionbase](https://github.com/kakao/actionbase) | 225 | Kotlin | One database for user-user (follows), user-item (likes), and item-item (related items) interactions — precomputed at wri |
| [DaumEditor](https://github.com/kakao/DaumEditor) | 219 | JavaScript | [DEPRECATED] Open Source Online WYSIWYG HTML Editor |
| [kakao_flutter_sdk](https://github.com/kakao/kakao_flutter_sdk) | 193 | Dart | Flutter SDK for Kakao Open API |
| [web2app](https://github.com/kakao/web2app) | 161 | JavaScript | tiny javascript library to launch a mobile app. from a webpage |
| [awesome-tech-newletters](https://github.com/kakao/awesome-tech-newletters) | 132 | — | 기술 뉴스레터 모음 |
| [FunctionChat-Bench](https://github.com/kakao/FunctionChat-Bench) | 123 | Python | — |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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