BigCommerce vs Recurly

BigCommerce and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

BigCommerce (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 44). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

BigCommerce carries 3,505 GitHub stars across 281 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 51 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors.

BigCommerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.