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Culture Amp vs Recurly

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

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Recurly (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 31). 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), Recurly is ahead of Culture Amp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Recurly is slightly ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Recurly is ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Culture Amp is ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is clearly ahead of Culture Amp.

Culture Amp carries 1,202 GitHub stars across 179 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricCulture AmpRecurly
Ranking
Overall rank#693#317
Pillars
Overall3144
Code5368
Education4957
Community2434
Reach207
Momentum3164
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars1,2021,564
Forks123700
Public repos17953
Active repos (90d)1726
External contributors185
Avg polish5170
Avg AI-readiness3837

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