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Intuit vs Starling Bank

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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

Intuit (rank #237) holds a modest lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 33). The gap of 15 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Intuit is ahead of Starling Bank. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Intuit is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Intuit is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Starling Bank is clearly ahead of Intuit. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Starling Bank is 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. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Intuit's footprint is roughly 93.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Intuit is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank looks better where reach 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricIntuitStarling Bank
Ranking
Overall rank#237#625
Pillars
Overall4833
Code6550
Education7655
Community489
Reach2463
Momentum3748
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars18,182195
Forks4,23329
Public repos1503
Active repos (90d)273
External contributors400
Avg polish7058
Avg AI-readiness4014

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