Checkout.com vs Rippling

Checkout.com (A collection of libraries and plugins for Checkout.com) and Rippling (We make it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers, and apps.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Checkout.com (rank #152) holds a modest lead over Rippling (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (52 vs 39). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Rippling shows 156 stars across 11 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Checkout.com's footprint is roughly 3.5x 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. Rippling 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.