Comparisons
Alternatives, compared honestly.
Every page below states what the other product wins, what you give up by choosing us, and where the price actually starts — because a comparison that pretends the incumbent is bad is a comparison you should not trust.
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Jellyfish alternative
Cloud-only, no published price, no self-hosted edition. The comparison for organisations whose data cannot leave their network, and for teams smaller than the contracts that make that model work.
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LinearB alternative
The one Magic Quadrant Leader that publishes a price — with a hard 50-developer minimum and no self-hosted edition. The comparison for teams under the floor, and for anyone who wants the board and the metrics in one place.
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Apache DevLake alternative
The free, Apache-2.0 data platform: collectors into a database plus Grafana. The honest warehouse-vs-product read — choose it if your team wants to own SQL, choose us when the consumer is a VP running a meeting.
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Swarmia alternative
The benchmark for team-level developer-experience metrics — cloud-only, per seat, with a minimum headcount. The comparison for orgs whose data cannot sit in a vendor tenant and who want the same sources read from their own infrastructure.
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Appfire Flow alternative
Renewals ended 30 June 2026; end of life 31 December 2027. If your renewal was refused, there is nothing to export — the history is rebuilt from your tracker and Git provider. The self-hosted option, and the dates that decide how long you actually have.
The landscape, in one answer.
What are the alternatives to Jellyfish, LinearB and the other engineering-intelligence platforms?
The category has four leaders per Gartner (Atlassian DX, Jellyfish, LinearB, Opsera), plus Swarmia and the open-source Apache DevLake. Every one of the commercial platforms is operated by its vendor and either publishes no price or gates the entry point; DevLake is free but gives you a database and Grafana rather than a product. Deckgauge is the self-hosted, source-available alternative: one board over Jira, GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps with DORA metrics, workload, roadmaps and CapEx/OpEx — free and uncapped to run yourself.