LinearB vs Swarmia
LinearB
linearb.io
Swarmia
swarmia.comSide by side
| Figure | LinearB | Swarmia |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $2.42/mo | $5/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 7 |
| Spec score · Value Stream Management Software | 7.8 (#10) | 7.7 (#11) |
| Spec score · Software Development Analytics Tools | 7.8 (#11) | 7.8 (#12) |
| Spec score · DevOps analytics software | 7.8 (#29) | 7.8 (#30) |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Jira, Azure Boards, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and AI coding tools including Cursor, Claude, and GitHub Copilot. | Listed integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Linear, Azure Boards, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex. |
Plans
Swarmia
- FreeFree
- AI adoption & cost$5 a month
- Developer surveys$9 a month
- Software capitalization$18 a month
- Productivity & AI impact$23 a month
- Standard$45 a month
- Enterprise$55 a month
In their own words
LinearB
LinearB is an engineering productivity platform for measuring software delivery, applying code governance and connecting engineering activity to business results. Its AI insights track coding tools’ effects on delivery velocity, code quality and team health. AI Code Reviews check changes for security risks, bugs, performance issues and specification mismatches before merging. Policy-based workflows automate pull-request routing, approvals and test enforcement. Executive reporting links costs for AI, people, projects and processes with business outcomes. Integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Jira, Azure Boards, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Cursor, Claude and GitHub Copilot. A declarative REST API exports data to BI tools, while an open API manages teams and groups. It is available through web, API and self-hosted deployments. Pricing starts at $29/user/mo billed annually; monthly billing is unavailable. A 45-day trial is offered for GitHub Cloud users.
Swarmia
Swarmia helps software engineering teams examine where work is going, spot slowdowns, and respond. It combines information from codebases, issue trackers, AI tools, and HR systems into an organizational model. Teams can track AI tool adoption, activity, costs, and productivity impact; use recurring developer experience surveys with team heatmaps; and automate software development cost capitalization reporting with project or employee breakdowns. It also supports code, issue, DORA, delivery, reliability, and custom metrics. Listed integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Linear, Azure Boards, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex. Shortcut and GitHub Issues are marked beta; Asana and ClickUp are marked coming soon. Swarmia says it requests source code access but does not store source code, retaining each commit’s change size per file. The free plan is for companies with fewer than 10 software developers. Paid per-developer plans are listed from $5 a month billed annually to $55 a month billed annually, depending on the plan.