15Five vs Recurly

15Five and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Recurly (rank #317) holds a modest lead over 15Five (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 31). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Recurly is clearly ahead of 15Five. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Recurly is slightly ahead of 15Five. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Recurly is slightly ahead of 15Five. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Recurly is slightly ahead of 15Five. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is clearly ahead of 15Five.

15Five carries 141 GitHub stars across 29 public repos, with 2 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Recurly's footprint is roughly 11.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

15Five is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Recurly looks better where momentum 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.