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Afterpay vs Fillout

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Afterpay and Fillout both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Fillout (rank #510) holds a narrow lead over Afterpay (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (37 vs 30). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Afterpay carries 99 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. Fillout shows 2 stars across 9 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Afterpay's footprint is roughly 49.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Afterpay is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Fillout 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricAfterpayFillout
Ranking
Overall rank#728#510
Pillars
Overall3037
Code4434
Education3853
Community2627
Reach4750
Momentum1315
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars992
Forks1354
Public repos129
Active repos (90d)33
External contributors43
Avg polish4834
Avg AI-readiness3221

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