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GitDailies is the strongest LinearB alternative for small and mid-sized GitHub teams: digests, PR and DORA metrics, and alerts starting free, with unlimited users and Slack, Telegram, and email delivery on every plan. LinearB remains stronger for enterprise rollouts that want gitStream automation, investment allocation, and a certified per-seat platform; Swarmia and Jellyfish compete at that depth.

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What it costs

Per-seat pricing punishes you for hiring.

LinearB, 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.

CapabilityGitDailiesLinearB
Pricing modelBy PR volumePer user + credits, annual only
Entry priceFree$29/user/mo · 30-user minimum
Unlimited users on every planYesNo
Time to first metric~90 secondsMinutes (vendor claim)
DORA metricsYesYes
PR cycle time and throughputYesYes
Stale-PR alerts with custom thresholdsYesYes
Visual rule builder for alertsYesPolicy-as-code YAML (gitStream)
Personal daily digestYesTeam digest; personal alerts real-time
Slack / Telegram deliveryBothSlack & Teams (Enterprise plan)
Email digest deliveryYesResource Allocation digest only
Metrics API for Grafana and KibanaYesYes
Historical metrics backfillUp to 18 monthsYes; depth not published
Deep Jira and Linear integrationCommit linkingJira (Enterprise plan)
Developer experience surveysNoYes
Investment allocation reportingNoYes - Enterprise plan
Reads your source codeNeverShallow clone, then deletes

Where LinearB is genuinely stronger

  • SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001 certified
  • SSO/SAML via Okta, Azure AD, JumpCloud, OneLogin, any SAML provider. (GitDailies covers this indirectly: sign-in is via GitHub, so your org's SAML SSO on GitHub applies automatically.)
  • gitStream PR automation: auto-assigned reviewers, PR classification, CI orchestration
  • Developer satisfaction surveys included on both plans
  • Investment allocation and R&D cost capitalization reporting (Enterprise)
  • Public REST API (measurements, deployments, teams, incidents)
  • In-app benchmarks from 8.1M+ pull requests across 4,800+ organizations
“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

LinearB publishes two plans, both billed annually. Essentials is $29 per user per month with a 30-billable-user minimum, so 50 developers cost $1,450 per month - $17,400 per year - on GitHub Cloud only, without Jira, Slack, or Teams integrations. Those arrive with Enterprise at $59 per user and a 50-user minimum, roughly $35,400 per year. GitDailies prices by merged-PR volume instead, and a 50-person team typically lands on a flat published plan at a fraction of that.

LinearB has no free tier - only a 45-day trial, after which the smallest purchase is a 30-user annual contract. GitDailies Community is free indefinitely for up to 50 merged pull requests per month across two repositories, with daily digests and PR metrics included. Teams that outgrow it move to a $49 per month plan with no seat count and no annual commitment.

No. LinearB’s security page states that it performs a shallow clone of repositories to extract Git metadata and deletes the clone once processing finishes. GitDailies never clones repositories at all and does not read or store source code - it works from pull request metadata through a GitHub App whose every permission scope is read-only. Both approaches avoid keeping your code; GitDailies simply never takes a copy in the first place.

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.