commercetools vs Starling Bank

commercetools (commerce platform for customer-focused industry leaders) and Starling Bank both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

commercetools (rank #189) holds a modest lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (50 vs 33). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

commercetools carries 1,270 GitHub stars across 221 public repos, with 37 repositories active in the last 90 days and 16 external contributors on record. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but commercetools's footprint is roughly 6.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

commercetools is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank looks better where reach 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.