Remote vs Zapier

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

Zapier (rank #27) holds a modest lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (64 vs 46). The gap of 18 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Zapier is ahead of Remote. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is slightly ahead of Zapier. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Zapier is slightly ahead of Remote. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Zapier is clearly ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zapier 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. Zapier shows 6,768 stars across 296 public repos, 13 active in the last 90 days and 23 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Zapier's footprint is roughly 8.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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