Close vs Mollie

Close (The inside sales CRM of choice for SMBs) and Mollie (Building a payments and banking stack for makers.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Close (rank #298) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 45). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Close carries 3,871 GitHub stars across 190 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 10 external contributors on record. Mollie shows 2,571 stars across 85 public repos, 30 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors.

Close is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Mollie 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.