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Pricing plan comparison
devActivity Free
devActivity Premium
LinearB
Price
$0/month
$10/month
$49/month
General
Trial
No need
30 Days
14 days
Pricing Plan
No need
Monthly/Annually
Only Annually
Require Source Code Access
The access to the Source Code as needed by a Party for performing its activities within the project context.
No
No
Yes
Data Retention Period
The amount of time that a Party holds onto information.
45 Days
Unlimited
3 Years5 years in Enterprise Plan.
Users/Teams
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Repositories
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Activity Metrics
Contribution Score
The method of measuring developer performance on an elevated scale for rolling up individual metrics into high-level categories of performance that are consistent across the team.
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Not included in LinearB
Number of Commits
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Number of Pull Requests
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Number of Code Reviews
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Number of Issues
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Quality Metrics
Cycle Time
The amount of time the team spends actually working on completing a specific task from start to finish.
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Coding Time
The time it takes from the first commit until a pull request is issued.
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Pickup Time
The time it takes from when a pull request is issued until a review has started.
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Review Time
The time it takes to complete a code review and get a pull request merged.
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Deployment Frequency
This means how often new code changes are deployed to production. It’s a measure of a team’s speed and agility. This metric is correlated with both the speed and the quality of your engineering team.
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
Change Lead Time
The time it takes to implement a code change from the moment it is requested until it is deployed into production. This metric includes all the necessary steps for the change to be implemented, such as code review, testing, and deployment.
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
Change Failure Rate
The percentage of deployments that lead to failures after they reach production or are released to end-users.
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
Other Additional Metrics
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
Other
Alerts
Important messages about potential problems to fix.
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Benchmarking
Compare your data with aggregated industry data from other companies who share their data.
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
Individual Performance Review
Performance output is based on data and analytics collected by the Party. Managers use assessment to evaluate developers' progress, strengths, weaknesses, and productivity.
30 Days OverviewData on team performance or individual performance.
Data on team performance or individual performance for the required time (week, month, quarter, year, and more).
Included in devActivity Premium
Not included in LinearB
Gamification
XP for Contributions, Levels
Experience points (XP) are a unit of measurement of developers' work activity earned by completing tasks or objectives. The accumulation of XP represents a developer's progress and level of expertise.
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Not included in LinearB
Challenges and Achievements
A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination. An achievement is some result that someone has succeeded in doing, especially after a lot of effort.
Basic Set
Extended Set
Only Team Goals
Appreciation Badges
Symbolic and visual items are used in workplaces to reward, recognize, and highlight the achievements and contributions of employees.
Not included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Not included in LinearB
Common Features
Email Reports
Daily/Weekly/Monthly
Daily/Weekly/Monthly
Daily/Weekly
Data Export
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
API
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
Support & Consulting
Support
Community Disussions
Email
Email/Chat
Account Manager
Not included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Individual Training/Consulting
Not included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
Integrations
GitHub
Included in devActivity Free
Included in devActivity Premium
Included in LinearB
GitLab
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
BitBucket
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
Slack
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
Jira
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
Other
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Included in LinearB
- The product has a well-designed UI.
- While a free plan is an option, the paid editions are intended for annual contracts.
- A valuable thing for leads and managers is case study recommendations: what to do for a particular metric change.
- There's a separate tool for the teams - automation of Pull Requests based on the rules.
- What may cause concern is the need to create a service account in the Git management system for some integrations. The initial setup is a bit tricky, especially with Jira. To have all the metrics, you must properly attribute the code and configure LinearB. You're welcome to check devActivity - LinearB alternative
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