Mollie vs SolarWinds

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

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 35). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Mollie is ahead of SolarWinds. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Mollie is clearly ahead of SolarWinds. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mollie is slightly ahead of SolarWinds. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), SolarWinds is ahead of Mollie. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SolarWinds 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. SolarWinds shows 1,101 stars across 104 public repos, 35 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors.

Mollie is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. SolarWinds 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.