Mailchimp vs Recurly

Mailchimp (Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing platform that helps you manage and talk to your clients, customers, and other interested parties.) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mailchimp and Recurly sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (44), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Mailchimp carries 8,980 GitHub stars across 28 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 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 Mailchimp's footprint is roughly 5.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mailchimp is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. 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.