Trade Republic vs Perk

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

Perk (rank #372) holds a narrow lead over Trade Republic (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 38). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Trade Republic carries 1,245 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 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 Trade Republic's footprint is roughly 36.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Trade Republic is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. 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.