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Razorpay vs Recurly

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

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

Razorpay (rank #30) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 44). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Razorpay carries 3,811 GitHub stars across 177 public repos, with 38 repositories active in the last 90 days and 32 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors.

Razorpay is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly 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

MetricRazorpayRecurly
Ranking
Overall rank#30#317
Pillars
Overall6344
Code6868
Education5357
Community4434
Reach587
Momentum7164
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars3,8111,564
Forks1,932700
Public repos17753
Active repos (90d)3826
External contributors325
Avg polish6970
Avg AI-readiness4937

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