Recurly vs Woo

Recurly and Woo (The company behind WooCommerce, the open-source commerce platform for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Woo (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 44). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Recurly is ahead of Woo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Woo is ahead of Recurly. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Woo is clearly ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Woo is ahead of Recurly.

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. Woo shows 23,045 stars across 247 public repos, 47 active in the last 90 days and 100 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Woo's footprint is roughly 14.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Recurly is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Woo 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.