Stream vs Recurly

Stream (Build scalable in-app chat, feeds, and live video with AI moderation capabilities in hours, not weeks.) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Stream 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 slightly ahead of Stream. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Recurly is slightly ahead of Stream. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Stream is ahead of Recurly. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Stream is ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Stream is ahead of Recurly.

Stream carries 35,664 GitHub stars across 487 public repos, with 84 repositories active in the last 90 days and 44 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 Stream's footprint is roughly 22.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Stream is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Recurly looks better where code quality 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.