Increase vs SolarWinds

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

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 35). The gap of 25 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), SolarWinds is slightly ahead of Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Increase is ahead of SolarWinds. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of SolarWinds. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of SolarWinds. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SolarWinds is 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. SolarWinds shows 1,101 stars across 104 public repos, 35 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SolarWinds's footprint is roughly 24.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. SolarWinds 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.