Adyen vs Adyen Examples

Adyen and Adyen Examples (Official examples for Adyen products and services) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adyen (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Adyen Examples (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 41). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Adyen carries 2,684 GitHub stars across 65 public repos, with 49 repositories active in the last 90 days and 39 external contributors on record. Adyen Examples shows 669 stars across 34 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adyen's footprint is roughly 4.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adyen is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Adyen Examples looks better where education 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.