Jellyfish alternative
The engineering-intelligence platform that doesn't hold your data.
Jellyfish is a strong product — and it is a cloud SaaS whose price arrives after a sales call. If your organisation can't put its source-control history in someone else's cloud, or is smaller than the contracts that make that model work, Deckgauge is the self-hosted, source-available alternative you run yourself.
SELF-HOSTED · FREE AND UNCAPPED CORE · NOTHING LEAVES YOUR NETWORK
Where each one wins.
| Jellyfish | Deckgauge | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | Jellyfish cloud | Your Postgres and ClickHouse, on your hardware |
| Can you read the source? | No | Yes — FSL-1.1-ALv2, converts to Apache-2.0 in 2028 |
| Entry price | ~$35,920 median annual contract, quote-only; impractical below ~30–50 engineers | $600/month published, from the first engineer — $13,200/year at 50. Self-hosted core free and uncapped |
| Connectors | Large catalogue | Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, calendar + Microsoft Graph |
| Survey / DevEx instrument | Yes | No — systems data only |
| SOC 2 / analyst placement | Yes, Gartner MQ Leader | No. What we offer instead is the source code |
| Board-ready allocation & CapEx | Patented allocation model, audited finance reporting | Attention-based allocation and CapEx/OpEx from tracker history, no timesheets |
The full table with every vendor and its sources is on the pricing page. The one-line version: not one Magic Quadrant Leader publishes a price a team of twelve can buy, and none of them ships a version you install yourself.
You are probably here for one of three reasons.
- Data can't leave your network. Defence-adjacent, fintech, healthcare, crypto, or a works council with a say in monitoring tools — a cloud SEI platform is a non-starter, and Jellyfish has no self-hosted edition. This is the structural reason Deckgauge exists.
- You are smaller than the contract floor. Jellyfish's model works at organisations where engineering is a seven-figure line item. Below that, the median contract is a large share of what you'd save. Deckgauge's core is free at any size and the paid plan starts at $600 / month from the first engineer.
- You want to inspect what's measuring your engineers. A platform that ranks and allocates your people's work is exactly the kind of thing a security or privacy review should be able to read. Ours is public.
Three gaps, before you find them yourself.
- Connectors. Five sources plus Microsoft Graph, not a catalogue. If your estate runs on tools we don't read, we are not the answer yet.
- No developer-experience survey. Everything is derived from systems data. If you want sentiment, pair us with a survey tool — we won't pretend to have one.
- No SOC 2, no analyst placement. What we offer a security review instead is the source, which you can read. If procurement requires a SOC 2 report, that is a real gap and better known now.
There is no export to migrate.
Jellyfish holds a derived copy of data whose systems of record are still your tracker and your Git provider. Deckgauge connects directly to Jira, GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps and rebuilds the history from them — so switching is a fresh install and a first sync, not a data migration. Run it beside the incumbent on the same weeks of real data and compare before you commit.
What people actually ask.
Is there a self-hosted alternative to Jellyfish?
Yes — Deckgauge. Jellyfish is a cloud SaaS: your issue tracker and source-control metadata are ingested into Jellyfish's cloud, and there is no version you install and run yourself. Deckgauge is the reverse: it runs on your own infrastructure (Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis, Keycloak in Docker), connects read-only to Jira, GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps, and the self-hosted core is free and uncapped under the FSL licence.
What does Jellyfish cost compared to Deckgauge?
Jellyfish publishes no list price; the number arrives after a sales call, and third-party data puts its median annual contract in the tens of thousands of dollars, which is impractical below roughly 30–50 engineers. Deckgauge's self-hosted core is free at any size, and the hosted or commercially-licensed plan is $600 / month published, from the first engineer.
What does Jellyfish do that Deckgauge does not?
Plenty, and it is better to know it up front. Jellyfish has a large connector catalogue, a patented work-allocation model, DevFinOps reporting aimed at finance, a developer-survey capability, SOC 1/SOC 2 reports and a Magic Quadrant Leader position. Deckgauge has five connectors (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, calendar) plus Microsoft Graph, no survey instrument, no SOC 2, and no analyst placement. What Deckgauge has that Jellyfish does not is a self-hosted, source-available deployment where nothing leaves your network.
Can I read Deckgauge's source code before trusting it with our data?
Yes. The full platform is published under the FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0 licence in a public repository — a security team can read every line before it is deployed, which is the substitute we offer for a third-party audit report. The licence is free for internal use at any size forever, converts to Apache-2.0 two years after each release, and its one restriction is reselling it as a competing hosted service.
Does Deckgauge replace Jellyfish for engineering allocation and capitalization?
For the systems-derived half, yes: allocation of attention across roadmap, delivery and operational work, CapEx/OpEx reporting derived from tracker history with no timesheets, DORA metrics, flow and review analytics, and per-engineer workload from an org chart synced from Microsoft Graph. For survey-based developer experience and multi-year audited finance reporting, no — pair us with a survey tool, and talk to us before relying on the CapEx reports in an audit that expects a SOC 1 process behind them.
Try it on the live demo, read the licence, or write to support@codpal.com and a person will answer.