Pendo vs Razorpay

Pendo and Razorpay both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Razorpay (rank #30) holds a meaningful lead over Pendo (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 33). The gap of 30 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Pendo carries 267 GitHub stars across 134 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Razorpay shows 3,811 stars across 177 public repos, 38 active in the last 90 days and 32 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Razorpay's footprint is roughly 14.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Pendo is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Razorpay looks better where code quality 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.