Mollie vs Sophos

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

Mollie (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Sophos (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 37). The gap of 17 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 Sophos. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Mollie is ahead of Sophos. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mollie is slightly ahead of Sophos. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mollie is ahead of Sophos. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sophos is slightly 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. Sophos shows 1,438 stars across 84 public repos, 7 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

Mollie is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Sophos 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.