Chargebee vs Increase

Chargebee (Billing Platform for Subscription Businesses.) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over Chargebee (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 41). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Chargebee carries 651 GitHub stars across 45 public repos, with 20 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 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 Chargebee's footprint is roughly 14.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Chargebee is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Increase looks better where reach 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.