Remote vs Perk

Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over Perk (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 42). The gap of 4 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 Perk. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is clearly ahead of Perk. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Perk is slightly ahead of Remote. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Perk is ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Perk 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. Perk shows 34 stars across 25 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Remote's footprint is roughly 23.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Perk 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.