GoCardless vs Open edX

GoCardless and Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

GoCardless and Open edX sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (42), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

GoCardless carries 6,977 GitHub stars across 161 public repos, with 19 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Open edX shows 10,654 stars across 186 public repos, 100 active in the last 90 days and 91 external contributors.

GoCardless is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Open edX 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.