Recurly vs Wistia

Recurly and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Wistia (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 44). The gap of 2 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 Wistia. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Wistia is ahead of Recurly. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Recurly is ahead of Wistia. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Wistia is clearly ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is clearly ahead of Wistia.

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. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

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