Adyen vs Chargebee

Adyen and Chargebee (Billing Platform for Subscription Businesses.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adyen (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Chargebee (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 clearly ahead of Chargebee. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Chargebee is slightly ahead of Adyen. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adyen is clearly ahead of Chargebee. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Chargebee is ahead of Adyen. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Chargebee is 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. Chargebee shows 651 stars across 45 public repos, 20 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adyen's footprint is roughly 4.1x 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. Chargebee 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.