Chargebee vs Stripe Samples

Chargebee (Billing Platform for Subscription Businesses.) and Stripe Samples (Sample integrations built by Stripe.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

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

Chargebee carries 651 GitHub stars across 45 public repos, with 20 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Stripe Samples shows 4,227 stars across 30 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 8 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Stripe Samples's footprint is roughly 6.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Chargebee is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Stripe Samples looks better where education 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.