adobe-commerce vs Recurly

adobe-commerce and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Recurly (rank #317) holds a modest lead over adobe-commerce (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 32). The gap of 12 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 adobe-commerce. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Recurly is ahead of adobe-commerce. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Recurly is slightly ahead of adobe-commerce. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), adobe-commerce is clearly ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is clearly ahead of adobe-commerce.

adobe-commerce carries 39 GitHub stars across 21 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 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.

adobe-commerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. 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.