Starling Bank vs Unsplash

Starling Bank and Unsplash (Building the internet's open library of freely usable visuals. Join us 👫) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Unsplash (rank #338) holds a modest lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 33). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Starling Bank carries 195 GitHub stars across 3 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Unsplash shows 9,930 stars across 63 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Unsplash's footprint is roughly 50.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Starling Bank is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Unsplash looks better where community 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.