Frappe vs Modern Treasury

Frappe (We build world class open-source software products.) and Modern Treasury (Modern Treasury builds payment operations software. Use our web application or API to manage the full cycle of money movement.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Frappe (rank #141) holds a modest lead over Modern Treasury (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (53 vs 37). The gap of 16 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Frappe carries 107,553 GitHub stars across 207 public repos, with 62 repositories active in the last 90 days and 174 external contributors on record. Modern Treasury shows 182 stars across 14 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Frappe's footprint is roughly 591.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Frappe is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Modern Treasury makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.