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Amadeus IT Group vs GoCardless

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

Amadeus IT Group (The official global GitHub of Amadeus IT Group, hosting Open Source content. Amadeus provides the technology that keeps the travel sector moving.) and GoCardless both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

GoCardless (rank #372) holds a narrow lead over Amadeus IT Group (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 40). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Amadeus IT Group carries 1,712 GitHub stars across 196 public repos, with 72 repositories active in the last 90 days and 25 external contributors on record. GoCardless shows 6,977 stars across 161 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but GoCardless's footprint is roughly 4.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Amadeus IT Group is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. GoCardless 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

MetricAmadeus IT GroupGoCardless
Ranking
Overall rank#430#372
Pillars
Overall4042
Code7149
Education4354
Community4233
Reach1112
Momentum6460
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars1,7126,977
Forks5431,173
Public repos196161
Active repos (90d)7219
External contributors253
Avg polish7448
Avg AI-readiness5238

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