Adobe, Inc. vs Recurly

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 44). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Adobe, Inc. carries 63,154 GitHub stars across 1,108 public repos, with 91 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 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 Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 40.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly 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.