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Formbricks vs Recharge, Inc

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

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and Recharge, Inc (Our mission is to make repeat orders easier for everyone.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a modest lead over Recharge, Inc (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 31). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Formbricks carries 12,675 GitHub stars across 18 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Recharge, Inc shows 9 stars across 13 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 1408.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formbricks is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Recharge, Inc 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

MetricFormbricksRecharge, Inc
Ranking
Overall rank#237#693
Pillars
Overall4831
Code5336
Education6769
Community475
Reach367
Momentum2435
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars12,6759
Forks2,4598
Public repos1813
Active repos (90d)92
External contributors60
Avg polish5732
Avg AI-readiness3733

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