Checkout.com vs Increase

Checkout.com (A collection of libraries and plugins for Checkout.com) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a narrow lead over Checkout.com (rank #152) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 52). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. 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 Checkout.com's footprint is roughly 12.0x 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. Increase 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.