Razorpay vs Shopify

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

Shopify (rank #14) holds a narrow lead over Razorpay (rank #30) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (67 vs 63). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Shopify shows 124,714 stars across 1,211 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Shopify's footprint is roughly 32.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Razorpay is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Shopify 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.