Recurly vs Salesforce

Recurly and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 44). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Recurly carries 1,564 GitHub stars across 53 public repos, with 26 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 44.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Recurly is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Salesforce looks better where reach 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.