Adyen vs Discord

Adyen and Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Adyen (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 51). The gap of 4 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 Discord. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Discord is clearly ahead of Adyen. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Discord is slightly ahead of Adyen. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Discord is clearly ahead of Adyen. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Discord 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. Discord shows 28,570 stars across 327 public repos, 36 active in the last 90 days and 41 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 10.6x 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. Discord 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.