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A/B Smartly vs Recurly

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

A/B Smartly (A/B Smartly - Your A/B Testing Platform) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Recurly (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over A/B Smartly (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 37). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

A/B Smartly carries 39 GitHub stars across 40 public repos, with 28 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 40.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

A/B Smartly is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricA/B SmartlyRecurly
Ranking
Overall rank#510#317
Pillars
Overall3744
Code4968
Education7557
Community2234
Reach127
Momentum3764
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars391,564
Forks26700
Public repos4053
Active repos (90d)2826
External contributors55
Avg polish4170
Avg AI-readiness4237

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