Increase vs TaxJar

Increase (Build your bank) and TaxJar (Making sales tax filing easier for more than 20,000 online sellers and merchants across the world.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over TaxJar (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 31). The gap of 29 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. TaxJar shows 490 stars across 39 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but TaxJar's footprint is roughly 10.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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