Avalara vs Razorpay

Avalara and Razorpay both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Razorpay (rank #31) holds a meaningful lead over Avalara (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 31). The gap of 32 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Avalara carries 21 GitHub stars across 7 public repos, with 0 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Razorpay shows 3,812 stars across 177 public repos, 38 active in the last 90 days and 33 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Razorpay's footprint is roughly 181.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Avalara is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Razorpay 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.