Chargebee vs Razorpay

Chargebee (Billing Platform for Subscription Businesses.) and Razorpay both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Razorpay (rank #30) holds a meaningful lead over Chargebee (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 41). The gap of 22 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Razorpay is ahead of Chargebee. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Razorpay is slightly ahead of Chargebee. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Razorpay is ahead of Chargebee. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Razorpay is clearly ahead of Chargebee. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Razorpay 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. Razorpay shows 3,811 stars across 177 public repos, 38 active in the last 90 days and 32 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Razorpay's footprint is roughly 5.9x 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. Razorpay 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.