Paddle vs Wistia

Paddle and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Wistia (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over Paddle (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 42). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Paddle is ahead of Wistia. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Wistia is ahead of Paddle. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Paddle is ahead of Wistia. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Wistia is ahead of Paddle.

Paddle carries 997 GitHub stars across 54 public repos, with 22 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

Paddle is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Wistia 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.