Mattermost vs Recurly

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #38) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 44). The gap of 18 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Mattermost carries 49,882 GitHub stars across 262 public repos, with 58 repositories active in the last 90 days and 105 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 Mattermost's footprint is roughly 31.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.