Blackbird vs Remote

Blackbird and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Blackbird (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 30). The gap of 16 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Blackbird carries 16 GitHub stars across 165 public repos, with 77 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Remote's footprint is roughly 50.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Blackbird is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Remote 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.