# Medium — developer ecosystem report

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- GitHub org: `Medium`
- Category: saas
- Overall score: 27.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #864
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-14

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 47.0 | #533 | ~22% |
| Education | 38.0 | #953 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 8.0 | #923 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 18.0 | #713 | ~16% |
| Reach | 42.0 | #465 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 4.0 | #873 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/Medium
- Website: https://medium.com
- Docs: https://docs.medium.com

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 8,946 |
| Forks | 1,597 |
| Open issues | 372 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [medium-api-docs](https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs) | 2,334 | — | Documentation for Medium's OAuth2 API |
| [phantomjs](https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs) | 1,431 | JavaScript | NPM wrapper for installing phantomjs |
| [snowflake](https://github.com/Medium/snowflake) | 763 | JavaScript | Medium's engineering growth visualization tool |
| [sus](https://github.com/Medium/sus) | 691 | JavaScript | simple data-uri stylesheet generator |
| [matador](https://github.com/Medium/matador) | 603 | JavaScript | an MVC framework for Node |
| [medium-sdk-nodejs](https://github.com/Medium/medium-sdk-nodejs) | 350 | JavaScript | A NodeJS SDK for Medium's OAuth2 API https://medium.com |
| [opensource](https://github.com/Medium/opensource) | 296 | — | Umbrella project for open source efforts at Medium |
| [medium-policy](https://github.com/Medium/medium-policy) | 276 | — | Medium’s Policies and Guidelines. |
| [shepherd](https://github.com/Medium/shepherd) | 231 | JavaScript | Asynchronous dependency injection for node |
| [medium-wordpress-plugin](https://github.com/Medium/medium-wordpress-plugin) | 210 | PHP | The official WordPress plugin for cross-posting to Medium. |
| [kew](https://github.com/Medium/kew) | 208 | JavaScript | a lightweight promise library optimized for node.js |
| [dynamite](https://github.com/Medium/dynamite) | 207 | JavaScript | A promise-based DynamoDB client |

## 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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