vBExperience v. vBactivity

[slinky]

I'm curious to know if anyone has had experience using vBactivity versus vBexperience. What I like about the latter is that it is free and very widely used. I'm not worried about having to spend a lot of money to get a mod that is already available and then continue to pay support indefinitely.

Some things I don't like about vbexperience? Some things aren't working well. I'll have to try to rebuild the database again but awards for being a member aren't calculating properly as I have a 3 year member with an award for being a member for 3 months but it won't give her another award for being a member for 1 year. There are a couple of quirks with the display in the sidebar in a profile when viewing a forum post (the awards and stuff in the author postbit). But it is nice looking, well integrated and works with the most common mods like Thank you.

vBactivity has some parts that are cleaner and better laid out in the author postbit area. It offers a ton of customized extra data. But it also only works with its own mods like the Thank You mod - numerous people use the one freely available. It doesn't seem as widely used and also requires annual fees for support and copyright removal - so it better be a cut above vBexperience to be worth it. Some of the implementation does not look as nice and clean as vBexperience either.

They both seem like excellent mods but I need to make some choices. Wondering what your experiences have been like. Thanks.