Baremetrics vs ForestAdmin

Baremetrics (Subscription Analytics & Insights. One click and you get hundreds of valuable metrics & business insights from Stripe, Recurly, Braintree and more!) and ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Baremetrics (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 37). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Baremetrics carries 908 GitHub stars across 15 public repos, with 0 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. ForestAdmin shows 3,415 stars across 87 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 3.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Baremetrics is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. ForestAdmin 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.