Baremetrics vs Heap

Baremetrics (Subscription Analytics & Insights. One click and you get hundreds of valuable metrics & business insights from Stripe, Recurly, Braintree and more!) and Heap (Product Insights) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Baremetrics (rank #510) holds a narrow lead over Heap (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (37 vs 35). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Baremetrics carries 908 GitHub stars across 15 public repos, with 0 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Heap shows 215 stars across 65 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Baremetrics's footprint is roughly 4.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Baremetrics is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Heap looks better where community 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.