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Apollo.io vs Recruitee

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

Apollo.io (Apollo's github repo. Be awed) and Recruitee both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Apollo.io and Recruitee sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (34), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Apollo.io carries 73 GitHub stars across 42 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Recruitee shows 411 stars across 56 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Recruitee's footprint is roughly 5.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Apollo.io is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Recruitee looks better where code quality 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

MetricApollo.ioRecruitee
Ranking
Overall rank#600#600
Pillars
Overall3434
Code3546
Education7471
Community1612
Reach3235
Momentum2030
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars73411
Forks4667
Public repos4256
Active repos (90d)81
External contributors50
Avg polish2738
Avg AI-readiness3633

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