Glide vs Starling Bank

Glide (Build custom business software powered by your data and loved by your team - without code.) and Starling Bank both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Glide (rank #152) holds a modest lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (52 vs 33). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Glide carries 21,382 GitHub stars across 67 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 7 external contributors on record. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Glide's footprint is roughly 109.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Glide is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank looks better where reach 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.