Comparing GitClear to Code Climate

A November 2024 analysis including pricing, screenshots, and data

GitClear and Code Climate are the two longest-running companies working at Developer Analytics. Both companies began development in 2016, but in the years since, the companies have increasingly diverged in their vision for how developer metrics can create a better engineering culture.

tl; dr Code Climate vs GitClear

	Feature	Code Climate	GitClear
Security	SOC2 certification	✅	✅
	ISO 27001 certification	❌	✅
	Published pentest security audit	❌	✅
Licensing	On-prem enterprise version	✅	✅
Licensing	Free subscription tier	❌	✅
Manager/Executive features	Industry benchmark comparisons	✅	✅
	Pull request stats	✅	✅
	Goal setting	✅	✅
	Rich Jira stats (Cycle Time, unplanned work, etc)	✅	✅
	Sprint stats	❌	✅
	Publish any chart to web	❌	✅
Customer-centric	Sales demo required to access	✅	❌
	Developer-friendly	❌	✅
	Robust publicly available documentation	❌	✅
Developer features	Pull request code review (25% review time savings)	❌	✅
	Browse commit activity visually	✅	✅
	Commit activity reviewable	❌	✅
Social proof	4.5 or higher on G2	✅	✅
	Documented enterprise customers using software at scale	✅	✅
	Published research studies	✅	✅
2024 Pricing	3 developer team	Last reported values¹: Basic: $112/month Premium: $162/month Enterprise: Too expensive to publish 💸	Basic: $44.849999999999994/month Premium: $74.85/month Enterprise: $104.85000000000001/month
	10 developer team	Last reported values¹: Basic: $374/month Premium: $540/month Enterprise: Too expensive to publish 💸	Basic: $149.5/month Premium: $249.5/month Enterprise: $349.5/month
	50 developer team	Last reported values¹: Basic: $1,870/month Premium: $2,700/month Enterprise: Too expensive to publish 💸	Basic: $747.5/month Premium: $1,247.5/month Enterprise: $1,747.5000000000002/month
	200 developer team	Last reported values¹: Basic: $7,483/month Premium: $10,816/month Enterprise: Too expensive to publish 💸	Basic: $2,990.0/month Premium: $4,990.0/month Enterprise: $6,990.000000000001/month
	¹ Code Climate stopped publishing their pricing information in the early 2020s, forcing users to use SaaS aggregators to get a sense of their pricing.		Try GitClear now	Try GitClear now

How is GitClear so price-competitive vs Code Climate?

Divergent customer acquisition philosophies. Traditional GitClear competitors (LinearB, Code Climate Velocity, Pluralsight Flow, etc) price in a mandatory/dedicated ~~sales rep~~ "account manager," ostensibly on behalf of ensuring that customers are fully utilizing the product.

Code Climate uses a sales-driven customer acquisition funnel, which means they need to charge considerably more to cover the salaries of a sales team.

GitClear also offers in-house experts via our Data Insights Program. The difference is that our "dedicated support" program comes a la carte -- you are welcome to purchase it for a few months, and then cancel it once you're up-to-speed on how the product works.

A few reasons customers choose GitClear

1. Flexible, product-driven pricing

A sales-driven company is more expensive than a product-driven company. This makes GitClear a more appealing option for companies sensitive to annual costs.

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2. Developer-powered vs. Manager-powered

GitClear bills itself as "the most developer-friendly analytics tool," and it requires that developers grant permission to those who want to filter on their individual stats. No other Developer Analytics tool gives developers control over who views their data.

Every developer has dealt with a Bad Manager at some point in their career, so the burden is on the tool to prove that those managers won't use it against the creators. Several pages of Code Climate promote the comparison of individuals based on metrics of debatable value.

3. Pinpoint Tech Debt

Actionability of data matters. That's why GitClear helps pinpoint directories that have slowed down developers who dared wade into them. Only GitClear allows you to utilize a substantiated metric to decide upon which directories to prioritize when you decide it's time to pick up the development pace.

4. Perfect for developer self-optimization

GitClear was originally built for developers that have a self-interest in improving: the developers in a startup. Anyone in a small company understands how the business will live or die based on the rate at which code changes can be deployed.

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5. Empirically validated

Code Climate Velocity derives measurements by analyzing git's reporting of Lines of Code and Commit Count. The data that can be gleaned from these sources is prone to bursts of noise. GitClear's Diff Delta metric has been empirically proven to correlate better with code evolution than Lines of Code or Commit Count.

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5.5 Rapid setup, no process changes

To reap the full benefit of Code Climate Velocity requires training a team to participate in a specific regimen that allows the software to generate data.

In contrast, GitClear was built to "Just Work™️". You log in, choose which repos to import, optionally connect to Jira, and wait a few hours. No credit card or no sales demo necessary. Once you see your data through GitClear, you'll realize why we grew more than 4x in 2021 alone.

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