Mollie vs sendinblue (now Brevo)

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

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over sendinblue (now Brevo) (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 42). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. sendinblue (now Brevo) shows 653 stars across 37 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mollie's footprint is roughly 3.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mollie is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. sendinblue (now Brevo) looks better where reach 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.