Checkout.com vs Excalidraw

Checkout.com (A collection of libraries and plugins for Checkout.com) and Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Checkout.com (rank #152) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 52). 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), Checkout.com is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is ahead of Checkout.com. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Checkout.com. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Checkout.com is ahead of Excalidraw. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Checkout.com is clearly ahead of Excalidraw.

Checkout.com carries 542 GitHub stars across 55 public repos, with 26 repositories active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 136,744 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 252.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Checkout.com is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Excalidraw 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.