Adyen vs Bitwarden

Adyen and Bitwarden (Open source security solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations. Explore Password Manager, Secrets Manager, and passkey innovations.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Bitwarden (rank #55) holds a modest lead over Adyen (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 51). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Bitwarden shows 54,524 stars across 68 public repos, 51 active in the last 90 days and 119 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Bitwarden's footprint is roughly 20.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adyen is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Bitwarden 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.