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Asana vs Recurly

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

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

Recurly (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Asana (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 43). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Asana carries 1,843 GitHub stars across 34 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors.

Asana is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly looks better where momentum 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

MetricAsanaRecurly
Ranking
Overall rank#338#317
Pillars
Overall4344
Code4968
Education7057
Community2934
Reach387
Momentum1664
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars1,8431,564
Forks598700
Public repos3453
Active repos (90d)826
External contributors25
Avg polish4470
Avg AI-readiness4337

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