Remote vs Starling Bank

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

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 33). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Remote is slightly ahead of Starling Bank. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Remote is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Starling Bank is clearly ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Starling Bank is slightly 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. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Remote's footprint is roughly 4.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Starling Bank 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.