Box vs Increase

Box (Box, Inc.) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a narrow lead over Box (rank #93) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 56). 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), Box is ahead of Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Box is slightly ahead of Increase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is ahead of Box. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is ahead of Box. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Increase is ahead of Box.

Box carries 14,074 GitHub stars across 84 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 33 external contributors on record. Increase shows 45 stars across 12 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Box's footprint is roughly 312.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Box is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Increase 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.