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GitDailies is the strongest DX alternative for GitHub teams that want delivery metrics without a sales cycle: self-serve, free to start, published PR-volume plans, and a first digest the next morning. DX remains stronger for enterprise developer experience programs built on surveys, benchmarking, and engineering allocation, and is now owned by Atlassian. Swarmia, LinearB, and Jellyfish compete at that platform depth.

Atlassian acquired DX ($1B deal announced 2025-09-18; acquisition completed 2025-11-10 per Atlassian's SEC 10-Q); as of 2026-08-03 DX still sells standalone under its own brand at getdx.com.

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DX does not publish pricing - every figure is quote-only. GitDailies plans are published, from $0. Move the slider to see what GitDailies costs at your size.

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Where each is stronger.

CapabilityGitDailiesDX
Pricing modelBy PR volumeDeveloper licenses (quote)
Entry priceFreeNo public price · 1-year minimum
Unlimited users on every planYesNo
Time to first metric~90 secondsNot published
DORA metricsYesYes
PR cycle time and throughputYesYes
Stale-PR alerts with custom thresholdsYesNot published
Visual rule builder for alertsYesNot published
Personal daily digestYesNot published
Slack / Telegram deliveryBothSlack + Teams (surveys)
Email digest deliveryYesSurvey delivery only
Metrics API for Grafana and KibanaYesSQL + BI export (Looker, Snowflake)
Historical metrics backfillUp to 18 monthsNot published
Deep Jira and Linear integrationCommit linkingYes
Developer experience surveysNoDevSat + Experience Sampling
Investment allocation reportingNoEngineering Allocation module
Reads your source codeNeverNever

Where DX is genuinely stronger

  • Research-backed developer experience surveys (DevSat, Experience Sampling) feeding the Developer Experience Index
  • Benchmarking against hundreds of organizations worldwide, including Direct Benchmarking against peer companies
  • Unified engineering data lake: 55 data connectors, natural-language or SQL querying, push to Looker, Snowflake, and Backstage
  • SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27701:2019; does not read or access source code
  • Engineering Allocation with AI-based work categorization
  • SSO (SAML/OIDC, plus Okta and Atlassian) with SCIM role management and Okta directory sync. (GitDailies covers this indirectly: sign-in is via GitHub, so your org's SAML SSO on GitHub applies automatically.)
“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

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DX does not publish prices. Its pricing page states that pricing is based on developer licenses, that usage tiers apply for MCP server access, and that contracts start at a one-year term, with modular pricing that varies by the products a company buys. A 50-person team therefore needs a sales conversation and a custom quote before it sees a number. There is no free tier and no self-serve trial - only a sales-arranged, no-cost proof of concept. GitDailies publishes its prices: a 50-person team merging around 500 pull requests per month lands on Pro 500 at $99 per month, with unlimited users on every plan.

Yes. Atlassian announced the acquisition on September 18, 2025, and completed it on November 10, 2025, according to Atlassian’s quarterly SEC filing. As of August 2026, DX is still sold as a standalone product under its own brand at getdx.com, with its own pricing page and new product releases announced in May 2026. DX stated at announcement that it would continue investing in third-party integrations regardless of whether customers use Atlassian products, and Atlassian plans to bring DX into its System of Work alongside Jira and Bitbucket. How the product changes inside Atlassian is not published, so buyers signing a one-year DX contract should ask the sales team directly.

No, and it does not try to. DX’s surveys are its core strength: DevSat, Experience Sampling, and targeted studies feed a research-backed Developer Experience Index, with benchmarking against hundreds of organizations. If your organization is running a survey-driven developer experience program, DX leads on that axis. GitDailies takes a different route to visibility: it builds daily digests, PR and DORA metrics, and alerts from the GitHub activity your team already produces, so there is no survey to write, schedule, or chase responses for. Teams that mainly want to see delivery - what is stalled, what merged, how long reviews take - get that from GitDailies without running a survey program.

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.