Mollie vs Recurly

Mollie (Building a payments and banking stack for makers.) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 44). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Mollie carries 2,571 GitHub stars across 85 public repos, with 30 repositories active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors.

Mollie 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.