Increase vs Recurly

Increase (Build your bank) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 44). 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), Recurly is ahead of Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Increase is slightly ahead of Recurly. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of Recurly. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is clearly ahead of Increase.

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 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 Recurly's footprint is roughly 34.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly looks better where momentum 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.