Developer Analytics Tools:
Pricing Comparison

In 2024, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and other engineering leaders have a rich set of tools to choose from that can shine a light into the inner workings of their dev team. But with greater opportunity comes greater decision-making costs.

How do the pricing and features compare among 2024's top-shelf Developer Analytics products?

While all of these companies promise to inject transparency into the engineering process, few offer full transparency into what their customers will actually be charged. We think that customers deserve to know about what their tools will cost before they're induced to spend 60 minutes in a sales/demo call. And so, without further ado...

Published Pricing^* | November 2024

	GitClear	Pluralsight Flow	Code Climate Velocity	LinearB	Haystack
Public Debut	2020	2019	2018	2019	2020
3 Developers per month	$27	$126*	$112	$105	$60
10 Developers per month	$90	$416*	$374	$210	$200
50 Developers per month	$450	$2,079*	$1,871	$1,610	$1,000
100 Developers per month	$900	$4,158*	$3,742	$3,360	Too expensive to publish
Per Developer per month	$9	$42*	$37	$35	$20
100 Developers On Prem (Enterprise) per month	$2,900	$5,000*	Too expensive to publish	$4,500	Too expensive to publish

* Some prices shown were published earlier in 2021, before Pluralsight opted to remove all pricing specifics from their website. It may be higher or lower now. If they, or any other service, would like to email us at [email protected] to clarify their pricing, we pledge to update this table within one business day. In the meantime, please note that these prices are only as exact can be inferred from reading their (now or previously) public-visible pricing page.

Why the Wide Range?

In a word: sales. If one analyzes the structure and funding source of each Developer Analytics company, there is a direct correlation between the size of the company's sales team and the size of the monthly price tag.

This is not to say that there aren't differences in the feature sets between products. Nor is it to say that having a sales team eager to answer questions isn't worth the extra cost to some types of customer. It is to say that if a Developer Analytics company requires a greater headcount to help users understand the utility of their product, that comes with an implied cost.

When GitClear launched in 2019, we, too employed a dedicated sales team. Our pricing at that time started at $300/month, with each incremental developer @ $30/month. It worked OK, but we came to realize that main purpose our sales team served was helping customers interpret our esoteric charts and navigate our then-complex onboarding process. If we could make the charts' utility self-evident, and we could automate the onboarding process, we could fill a new (more affordable) niche.

Feature Differences

It's reasonable to imagine that the features offered per product influences price. An impartial reader ought to be skeptical if GitClear claimed that, in spite of our lower cost, we answered a wider range of engineering questions. So, instead of making the classic Sales Feature Table where GitClear checks all the boxes and everyone else gets some scraps, we'll just provide a partial list of functionality that GitClear offers as of late 2021 and let you be the judge.

Sampling of GitClear Features

• Full Google DORA/Accelerate integration. There are four Google-researched Devops stats that have been benchmarked and proven to improve engineering outcomes: deployment frequency, change failure rate, time to restore service, and lead time for changes. GitClear not only allows team-by-team tracking of these stats, it often requires no manual configuration by the customer (we use heuristics to detect patterns, so you spend less time poring through admin setting pages).
• Per-directory assessment of relevant tech debt. If you're an engineering leader that needs to bring data to executives to make the case for paying down relevant tech debt, we've built a report for that. It measures how much time is spent in each directory, and how much progress resulted from the time outlay.
• Real-time visibility into which Jira tickets are being worked on. And estimate how much longer until a feature or bugfix is likely to be completed, based on the work the developer has submitted to their branch/PR, combined with your team's historical correlation between Story Points and Diff Delta (often 50% or greater).
• Extensive, frequently updated help documentation. Do you want to email sales when you have a problem, or would you rather go find an answer on the spot, with screenshots and example-rich documentation written (and regularly updated) by the developers that implemented the feature?
• Built by a CEO/Developer, for Developers and CEOs. What other tool has a built-in diff viewer that groups commits by functionality? GitClear goes beyond the vanilla diff viewers available through GitHub, Bitbucket, et al. It took several years to build, but we did it because we wanted GitClear to earn developer buy-in. No manager wants to ambush their developers with stats from a dashboard or report that the developer themselves can't (or don't want to) use.
• No developer stack ranking. Instead: a team-based approach to improvement. The best products are built by teams that share a spirit of leveling each other up.
• Incentivize deleting legacy code, writing more tests, and keeping documentation fresh. The easiest metrics for most Developer Analytics companies to measure are "commits made" and "lines of code changed," but these metrics have only the slightest correlation with long-term repo health. When they get gamed, bad engineering outcomes are to be expected. Diff Delta is the opposite: a metric designed to help developers justify following the best practices they wanted to be following anyway.
• And lots more. GitClear is a product built to solve common problems faced by stakeholders across an engineering organization (Developers, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Product Managers, CEOs, etc). With more than 20 reports that can be filtered by team, date range, repo, Jira ticket, organization, etc., we create transparency that helps disparate roles work from a shared truth.

Don't take our word for it

At the conclusion of your sales call with a competitor, ask if they have your favorite feature(s) from the list above? These features are not all unique to GitClear, but the breadth of reports we offer -- and the focus on building a developer-first analytics tool that doesn't require hand-holding to set up [1] -- are what makes GitClear more affordable and more versatile than platforms that cost several times more.

[1] We do have a small-but-mighty support team to help with initial onboarding if necessary. We can also help walk you through the fifteen minute process of getting an On Prem version of GitClear running on your cloud or data center.