Chargebee vs Frappe

Chargebee (Billing Platform for Subscription Businesses.) and Frappe (We build world class open-source software products.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Frappe (rank #141) holds a modest lead over Chargebee (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (53 vs 41). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Chargebee carries 651 GitHub stars across 45 public repos, with 20 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Frappe shows 107,553 stars across 207 public repos, 62 active in the last 90 days and 174 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Frappe's footprint is roughly 165.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Chargebee is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Frappe 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.