Afterpay vs SmartRecruiters
Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.
Afterpay and SmartRecruiters both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.
SmartRecruiters (rank #430) holds a modest lead over Afterpay (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 30). 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), SmartRecruiters is ahead of Afterpay. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SmartRecruiters is clearly ahead of Afterpay. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Afterpay is ahead of SmartRecruiters. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), SmartRecruiters is clearly ahead of Afterpay. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Afterpay is slightly ahead of SmartRecruiters.
Afterpay carries 99 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. SmartRecruiters shows 119 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.
Afterpay is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. SmartRecruiters 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.
Side-by-side metrics
| Metric | Afterpay | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Ranking | ||
| Overall rank | #728 | #430 |
| Pillars | ||
| Overall | 30 | 40 |
| Code | 44 | 56 |
| Education | 38 | 65 |
| Community | 26 | 12 |
| Reach | 47 | 76 |
| Momentum | 13 | 6 |
| Builder experience | 0 | 0 |
| Signals | ||
| Stars | 99 | 119 |
| Forks | 135 | 17 |
| Public repos | 12 | 25 |
| Active repos (90d) | 3 | 3 |
| External contributors | 4 | 2 |
| Avg polish | 48 | 57 |
| Avg AI-readiness | 32 | 37 |