Stripe vs Perk

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

Stripe (rank #1) holds a meaningful lead over Perk (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (76 vs 42). The gap of 34 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Stripe carries 44,519 GitHub stars across 97 public repos, with 64 repositories active in the last 90 days and 124 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 Stripe's footprint is roughly 1309.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Stripe is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Perk makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.