Remote vs UserTesting

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

Remote (rank #297) holds a modest lead over UserTesting (rank #691) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (45 vs 31). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Remote carries 815 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 16 repositories active in the last 90 days and 14 external contributors on record. UserTesting shows 15 stars across 119 public repos, 0 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 54.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. UserTesting 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.