Chargebee vs Recurly

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

Recurly (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Chargebee (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 41). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Recurly is ahead of Chargebee. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Recurly is slightly ahead of Chargebee. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Recurly is ahead of Chargebee. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Chargebee is ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is slightly 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. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors.

Chargebee is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly looks better where code quality 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.