MailerLite vs Recurly

MailerLite (Digital marketing tools to grow your audience faster and drive revenue smarter.) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Recurly (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over MailerLite (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 40). 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 ahead of MailerLite. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Recurly is slightly ahead of MailerLite. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Recurly is slightly ahead of MailerLite. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), MailerLite is slightly ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is clearly ahead of MailerLite.

MailerLite carries 1,134 GitHub stars across 39 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors.

MailerLite 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.