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GitDailies is the strongest Axolo alternative for GitHub teams who want measurement rather than another Slack workflow: daily digests, PR and DORA metrics, and stale-PR alerts, free to start and priced per pull request. Axolo remains the better tool for live PR collaboration - an ephemeral Slack channel per pull request with two-way comment sync - and the two can run together. For platform-depth metrics, Swarmia and LinearB compete.

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What it costs

Per-seat pricing punishes you for hiring.

Axolo, and most of the category, charge for every developer on the team. GitDailies plans are sized by the pull requests you actually merge. Move the slider to see where the two models diverge.

Side by side

Where each is stronger.

CapabilityGitDailiesAxolo
Pricing modelBy PR volumePer seat
Entry priceFreeFree (50 PR channels/mo) → $10/seat
Unlimited users on every planYesNo
Time to first metric~90 secondsNo metrics product
DORA metricsYesNo
PR cycle time and throughputYesNo
Stale-PR alerts with custom thresholdsYesDaily reminders, custom idle threshold
Visual rule builder for alertsYesNo
Personal daily digestYesPR recaps via Slack DM
Slack / Telegram deliveryBothSlack only
Email digest deliveryYesNo
Metrics API for Grafana and KibanaYesNo
Historical metrics backfillUp to 18 monthsNo
Deep Jira and Linear integrationCommit linkingIssue links in PR channels
Reads your source codeNeverNever

Where Axolo is genuinely stronger

  • Ephemeral Slack channel per pull request with two-way Slack ↔ GitHub comment sync
  • GitLab support, including self-hosted GitLab (GitDailies is GitHub-only)
  • Code review timeslots - reviewers set when they are available and are only notified then
  • SOC 2 Type 2 compliant; SSO through Slack on all plans
  • GitHub Enterprise Server support and a user provisioning/deprovisioning API (Enterprise plan)
“GitDailies is one of the most customer-obsessed vendors we work with - clear communication, killer features.”

Alexander Neben

Director of Engineering, MongoDB

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Questions

What people ask before switching

Axolo Standard is $10 per seat per month on monthly billing, so 50 developers cost $500 per month at list price - $6,000 per year, or $4,980 at the yearly rate of $8.30 per seat. Business is $16 per seat, or $800 per month. The free plan is capped at 50 pull request channels per month, which a 50-person team would exhaust quickly. GitDailies prices by merged-PR volume instead of seats, so the same team lands on a flat published plan that does not move with headcount.

Yes, and Axolo itself suggests so: its integrations directory lists GitDailies as a companion app for daily snapshots of commit and pull request activity. The two products do different jobs. Axolo runs the conversation - an ephemeral Slack channel per pull request with two-way comment sync between Slack and GitHub. GitDailies runs the reporting - daily digests, PR and DORA metrics, and configurable stale-PR alerts, delivered to Slack, email, or Telegram. Neither reads your source code, and neither requires the other to change any setting. Teams that want both a faster review conversation and a measured one can run both side by side.

No. Axolo is a collaboration tool: it opens a temporary Slack channel for every pull request and keeps the review conversation moving. It does not ship DORA metrics, cycle-time analytics, dashboards, or a metrics API - its only public API handles user provisioning on the Enterprise plan. Time-to-merge improvements appear on its site as customer stories, not as a product surface you can chart. GitDailies covers that side: Pull Request Trends, Review Trends, all four DORA charts - Deployment Rate, Lead time for changes, Time to restore service, Change failure rate - CSV export on every view, and historical backfill of up to 18 months on the Max plan.

Per-seat tools charge for every developer on the team, so the bill grows with headcount whether or not activity does. GitDailies plans are sized by the pull requests your team merges per month, in volume bands: a 50-person team merging 400 PRs fits the up-to-500 band at a flat published price. Contractors, reviewers, and occasional committers are free on every plan, and the price only changes when your monthly volume crosses into another band.

No. GitDailies never clones repositories and does not read or store source code. It works from pull request metadata - titles, reviewers, timestamps, status checks - through a GitHub App whose every permission scope is read-only. It also does not use your data to train AI models.

Yes. Deployment Rate, Lead time for changes, Time to restore service, and Change failure rate. Deployments come from a nominated GitHub Actions workflow or from external CI/CD through an incoming webhook, and incidents arrive on the same webhook, so all four charts run on your actual delivery path.