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Metabase vs Stripe

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

Metabase and Stripe both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Stripe (rank #1) holds a meaningful lead over Metabase (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (76 vs 51). The gap of 25 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Metabase carries 50,225 GitHub stars across 100 public repos, with 21 repositories active in the last 90 days and 49 external contributors on record. Stripe shows 44,519 stars across 97 public repos, 64 active in the last 90 days and 124 external contributors.

Metabase is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Stripe looks better where code quality 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

MetricMetabaseStripe
Ranking
Overall rank#165#1
Pillars
Overall5176
Code4980
Education8085
Community3960
Reach4140
Momentum6178
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars50,22544,519
Forks7,16711,562
Public repos10097
Active repos (90d)2164
External contributors49124
Avg polish5087
Avg AI-readiness3061

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