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Recurly vs Sophos

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Recurly and Sophos both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Recurly (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Sophos (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 37). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Sophos shows 1,438 stars across 84 public repos, 7 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

Recurly is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Sophos 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricRecurlySophos
Ranking
Overall rank#317#510
Pillars
Overall4437
Code6833
Education5768
Community3433
Reach711
Momentum6442
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars1,5641,438
Forks700432
Public repos5384
Active repos (90d)267
External contributors52
Avg polish7041
Avg AI-readiness3722

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