Excalidraw vs Stripe

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Stripe both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Stripe (rank #1) holds a meaningful lead over Excalidraw (rank #103) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (76 vs 55). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Excalidraw carries 136,744 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors on record. Stripe shows 44,519 stars across 97 public repos, 64 active in the last 90 days and 124 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 3.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Stripe 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.