Recurly vs Yoast

Recurly and Yoast (This is where the Yoast.com team shares its public code: from our WordPress plugins to other small projects.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Yoast (rank #209) holds a narrow lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 44). The gap of 5 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 Yoast. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Yoast is ahead of Recurly. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Yoast is ahead of Recurly. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Yoast is ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is ahead of Yoast.

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. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors.

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