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Amplitude vs Recurly

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

Amplitude and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Amplitude (rank #93) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 44). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Amplitude carries 3,167 GitHub stars across 151 public repos, with 39 repositories active in the last 90 days and 23 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors.

Amplitude is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly 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

MetricAmplitudeRecurly
Ranking
Overall rank#93#317
Pillars
Overall5644
Code7068
Education4257
Community4234
Reach217
Momentum7264
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars3,1671,564
Forks1,052700
Public repos15153
Active repos (90d)3926
External contributors235
Avg polish7070
Avg AI-readiness4437

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