Recurly vs Semrush

Recurly and Semrush (We do love open source and have an opportunity to make it better from now.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Recurly and Semrush sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (44), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

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. Semrush shows 454 stars across 11 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 7 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Recurly's footprint is roughly 3.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Recurly is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Semrush 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.