Recurly vs Zoom

Recurly and Zoom (Power Up Your Apps with Video, Phone, and Chat) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Zoom (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 44). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Recurly is ahead of Zoom. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Zoom is clearly ahead of Recurly. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Zoom is slightly ahead of Recurly. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Zoom is clearly ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zoom 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. Zoom shows 3,380 stars across 159 public repos, 62 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors.

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