1Password vs Paddle

1Password (1Password remembers all your passwords for you. It keeps your digital life secure and always available, safe behind the one password that only you know.) and Paddle both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

1Password (rank #20) holds a meaningful lead over Paddle (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (65 vs 42). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), 1Password is clearly ahead of Paddle. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), 1Password is ahead of Paddle. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 1Password is clearly ahead of Paddle. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), 1Password is ahead of Paddle.

1Password carries 12,938 GitHub stars across 96 public repos, with 38 repositories active in the last 90 days and 27 external contributors on record. Paddle shows 997 stars across 54 public repos, 22 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 1Password's footprint is roughly 13.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

1Password is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Paddle makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.