Increase vs Meltwater

Increase (Build your bank) and Meltwater (We harness the world’s data in real time to unlock our customer’s competitive edge.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Meltwater (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 33). The gap of 27 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Meltwater shows 196 stars across 22 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Meltwater's footprint is roughly 4.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Meltwater looks better where education 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.