Baremetrics vs Starling Bank

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

Baremetrics (rank #510) holds a narrow lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (37 vs 33). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Starling Bank is ahead of Baremetrics. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Baremetrics is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Baremetrics is slightly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Starling Bank is clearly ahead of Baremetrics. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Starling Bank is clearly 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. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Baremetrics's footprint is roughly 4.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Baremetrics is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Starling Bank 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.