Intuit vs Recurly

Intuit (Powering prosperity around the world.) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Intuit (rank #237) holds a narrow lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 44). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Intuit carries 18,182 GitHub stars across 150 public repos, with 27 repositories active in the last 90 days and 40 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 Intuit's footprint is roughly 11.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Intuit is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. 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.