Developer ecosystem comparison
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Contentful
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Rank #27
Score 64
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The Composable Content Platform ✨ Our API-first technology empowers builders to connect, create, and extend content with ease delivering impactful experiences.

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Contentful vs Increase

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Contentful (The Composable Content Platform ✨ Our API-first technology empowers builders to connect, create, and extend content with ease delivering impactful experiences.) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Contentful (rank #27) holds a narrow lead over Increase (rank #55) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (64 vs 60). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Contentful carries 6,359 GitHub stars across 270 public repos, with 68 repositories active in the last 90 days and 46 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 Contentful's footprint is roughly 141.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Contentful is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricContentfulIncrease
Ranking
Overall rank#27#55
Pillars
Overall6460
Code8852
Education5059
Community3968
Reach5179
Momentum6343
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars6,35945
Forks2,60915
Public repos27012
Active repos (90d)6811
External contributors465
Avg polish8748
Avg AI-readiness5647

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