Remote vs Yoast

Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) and Yoast (This is where the Yoast.com team shares its public code: from our WordPress plugins to other small projects.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Yoast (rank #209) holds a narrow lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 46). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Yoast is ahead of Remote. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is ahead of Yoast. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Yoast is ahead of Remote. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Remote is slightly ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Yoast 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. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Yoast'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. Yoast looks better where code quality 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.