Remote vs Stripe

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

Stripe (rank #1) holds a meaningful lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (76 vs 46). The gap of 30 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Stripe is clearly ahead of Remote. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Stripe is slightly ahead of Remote. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Stripe is clearly ahead of Remote. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Stripe is ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Stripe is clearly 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. Stripe shows 44,536 stars across 97 public repos, 64 active in the last 90 days and 120 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Stripe's footprint is roughly 54.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Remote is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Stripe 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.