Modern Treasury vs Recurly

Modern Treasury (Modern Treasury builds payment operations software. Use our web application or API to manage the full cycle of money movement.) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Recurly (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Modern Treasury (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 37). The gap of 7 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 Modern Treasury. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Modern Treasury is clearly ahead of Recurly. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Recurly is slightly ahead of Modern Treasury. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Modern Treasury is slightly ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is clearly ahead of Modern Treasury.

Modern Treasury carries 182 GitHub stars across 14 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 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 Recurly's footprint is roughly 8.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Modern Treasury is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. 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.