Increase vs Rippling

Increase (Build your bank) and Rippling (We make it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers, and apps.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Rippling (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 39). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Rippling shows 156 stars across 11 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Rippling's footprint is roughly 3.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Rippling makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.