Skyscanner vs Perk

Skyscanner and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Skyscanner (rank #209) holds a narrow lead over Perk (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 42). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Skyscanner carries 8,167 GitHub stars across 86 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 39 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 Skyscanner's footprint is roughly 240.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Skyscanner is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Perk 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.