Adyen Examples vs Mollie

Adyen Examples (Official examples for Adyen products and services) and Mollie (Building a payments and banking stack for makers.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Adyen Examples (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 41). 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), Adyen Examples is slightly ahead of Mollie. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Mollie is slightly ahead of Adyen Examples. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adyen Examples is slightly ahead of Mollie. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mollie is clearly ahead of Adyen Examples. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mollie is ahead of Adyen Examples.

Adyen Examples carries 669 GitHub stars across 34 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Mollie shows 2,571 stars across 85 public repos, 30 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mollie's footprint is roughly 3.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adyen Examples is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Mollie looks better where reach 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.