Afterpay vs Wistia

Afterpay and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Wistia (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Afterpay (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 30). The gap of 16 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Wistia is slightly ahead of Afterpay. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Wistia is clearly ahead of Afterpay. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Afterpay is slightly ahead of Wistia. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Afterpay is slightly ahead of Wistia. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Wistia is clearly 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. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Wistia's footprint is roughly 6.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Afterpay is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Wistia 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.