Cloudbeds vs Remote

Cloudbeds and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #300) holds a modest lead over Cloudbeds (rank #727) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (45 vs 30). The gap of 15 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Cloudbeds carries 49 GitHub stars across 29 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Remote shows 815 stars across 51 public repos, 16 active in the last 90 days and 14 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Remote's footprint is roughly 16.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Cloudbeds is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Remote looks better where momentum 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.