homebrew/brew vs pay-rails/pay
homebrew/brew shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, brew shows healthier maintenance signals than pay. brew rates Healthy overall while pay rates Mixed. brew was committed to 1 week ago with 12+ active contributors, while pay was committed to 1 week ago with 16+ active contributors. brew is BSD-2-Clause-licensed while pay is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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homebrew/brew
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
pay-rails/pay
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10…
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 81% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| brew | pay | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 49,466 | 2,252 |
| Last commit | 9d ago | 9d ago |
| License | BSD-2-Clause | MIT |
| Open issues | 10 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 77% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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