Discord vs Patreon

Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) and Patreon both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Patreon (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 36). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Discord carries 28,570 GitHub stars across 327 public repos, with 36 repositories active in the last 90 days and 41 external contributors on record. Patreon shows 846 stars across 62 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 33.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Patreon 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.