PayFit vs Starling Bank

PayFit (Paying employees has never been easier) and Starling Bank both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

PayFit and Starling Bank sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (33), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

PayFit carries 1 GitHub stars across 1 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Starling Bank's footprint is roughly 195.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

PayFit is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Starling Bank 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.