Open edX vs Stripe

Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) and Stripe both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Stripe (rank #1) holds a meaningful lead over Open edX (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (76 vs 42). The gap of 34 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Open edX carries 10,654 GitHub stars across 186 public repos, with 100 repositories active in the last 90 days and 91 external contributors on record. Stripe shows 44,519 stars across 97 public repos, 64 active in the last 90 days and 124 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Stripe's footprint is roughly 4.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Open edX is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Stripe looks better where education 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.