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Plausible Analytics vs Recruitee

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Plausible Analytics (Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.) and Recruitee both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Plausible Analytics (rank #338) holds a modest lead over Recruitee (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 34). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Plausible Analytics carries 31,145 GitHub stars across 21 public repos, with 7 repositories active in the last 90 days and 23 external contributors on record. Recruitee shows 411 stars across 56 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Plausible Analytics's footprint is roughly 75.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Plausible Analytics is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Recruitee 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricPlausible AnalyticsRecruitee
Ranking
Overall rank#338#602
Pillars
Overall4334
Code5646
Education6971
Community5912
Reach4935
Momentum3828
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars31,145411
Forks2,55767
Public repos2156
Active repos (90d)70
External contributors230
Avg polish5238
Avg AI-readiness3533

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