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Elementor vs Recurly

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

Elementor and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Elementor and Recurly sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (44), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Elementor carries 10,938 GitHub stars across 67 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 45 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Elementor's footprint is roughly 7.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Elementor 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

MetricElementorRecurly
Ranking
Overall rank#317#317
Pillars
Overall4444
Code5568
Education5657
Community4934
Reach297
Momentum1864
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars10,9381,564
Forks4,296700
Public repos6753
Active repos (90d)926
External contributors455
Avg polish5670
Avg AI-readiness3137

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