Remote vs SolarWinds

Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) and SolarWinds both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 35). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Remote carries 811 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. SolarWinds shows 1,101 stars across 104 public repos, 35 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. SolarWinds looks better where momentum 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.