Razorpay vs Remote

Razorpay and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Razorpay (rank #30) holds a modest lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 46). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Razorpay's footprint is roughly 4.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Razorpay is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Remote 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.