Razorpay vs Perk

Razorpay and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Razorpay (rank #30) holds a meaningful lead over Perk (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 42). The gap of 21 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 Perk. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Perk is slightly ahead of Razorpay. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Razorpay is slightly ahead of Perk. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Razorpay is clearly ahead of Perk. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Razorpay is clearly ahead of Perk.

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. Perk shows 34 stars across 25 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Razorpay's footprint is roughly 112.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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