# LinearB vs DX (Atlassian) | The best DX alternative > DX is now an Atlassian company. LinearB goes beyond engineering metrics to actually improve your developer experience and AI productivity. Competitors # LinearB vs. DX LinearB gives engineering leaders real-time visibility and developer-first automations to prove AI ROI, remove delivery bottlenecks, and improve developer experiences. [Book a demo](https://linearb.io/book-a-demo) [Start free trial](https://linearb.io/start-free-trial) Customers: SurveyMonkey Logo, Mitratech Logo, Syngenta Logo, INGKA Logo, Silicon Labs Logo, BigID logo, Expedia logo, Peloton logo, Equinix logo, Adobe logo, Vizio logo, Solace logo, Astronomer Logo, Norwegian Cruise Line Logo, Gainwell Logo ## Why companies choose LinearB LinearB is the AI productivity platform for engineering leaders, built to evaluate and scale AI for optimal engineering productivity, not just measuring whether developers feel good about it. DX is a research-driven survey tool, now navigating life inside the Atlassian ecosystem. While they tell you what happened, we help you change what happens next to improve delivery outcomes. ## What stands out ### Orchestrating and measuring AI workflows DX is designed to tell you what developers feel and what your metrics show. It’s not designed to change what happens next. LinearB closes that loop. Track whether tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code are actually improving delivery. Then take action with automations to route PRs, trigger AI code reviews, enforce policies and nudges that stall work. Each action generates new data, surfacing the next opportunity to optimize. ### Developer productivity insights DX’s research methodology is rigorous and their survey is strong for qualitative signals. But when you need quantitative delivery insights, they provide an API key and tell you to build it yourself, or pay for services. That’s a consulting model. The Atlassian acquisition has added another layer of complexity: Buyers are navigating questions about standalone pricing, roadmap ownership, and integration priorities that didn’t exist prior. Companies like IKEA, Expedia, and Adobe choose LinearB over DX because we provide deep, quantitative insights with the most comprehensive benchmarks from 8.1+ million pull requests across 4,800+ organizations worldwide, along with tools you need to actually solve problems for your developers. You also have the ability to combine developer sentiment from custom surveys as part of LinearB. ### Team coaching, forecasting, and executive support While DX is measuring how developers feel about their work, LinearB proves to your exec team that AI is delivering results. Forecast project delivery, automate cost capitalization for finance, generate board-ready reports, and coach developers with data-driven goals – all without switching tools. Your execs get the answers they need, and your developers get the support they deserve. ## Start helping your developers do more. | Feature | LinearB | DX | | --- | --- | --- | | AI code reviews — Automatically reviews code changes for quality and consistency. | Yes | No | | Auto PR description — Ensure clear, consistent pull request descriptions automatically. | Yes | No | | AI retros — Summarizes team retros and data insights in clear, natural language. | Yes | No | | MCP Server — Boost productivity with natural language tool control. | Yes | Yes | | Data collection integrations — Collects metadata from DevOps tools like Git, Jira, CI/CD, and collaboration platforms. | Yes | Yes | | Metrics generation — Computes flow, quality, and productivity metrics like lead time, cycle time, PR velocity. | Yes | Yes | | Insights & analysis — Delivers actionable insights and analysis from engineering data to uncover inefficiencies or trends. | Yes | Yes | | Dashboards & reporting — Provides customizable, role-based dashboards to track and visualize key engineering metrics. | Yes | Yes | | Support for frameworks — Supports recognized frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, DevEx, DXI, and OKRs. | Yes | Yes | | Benchmarking — Enables performance comparison across teams or against industry standards. | Yes | Limited | | Workflow automation — Automates engineering processes such as nudging, rebasing, or assigning reviews. | Yes | Limited | | Real-time prompts & notifications — Sends context-aware alerts to developers (e.g., unreviewed PRs, blocked work, WIP limits). | Yes | Limited | | Programmable workflows — Allows custom logic, triggers, and templates to automate team- or org-specific engineering processes. | Yes | No | | Project forecasting / AI-powered insights — Predicts delivery risk and delay based on historical trends and real-time signals. | Yes | No | | Agentic AI assistants — Includes agents that can automate higher-order tasks like onboarding, sprint planning, or PR triage. | Yes | No | | Time usage insights — Tracks developer time usage such as focus time, meeting load, and interruptions. | Yes | Limited | | Goal-tracking & agreements — Supports shared team goals, working agreements, and visualization of goal progress. | Yes | No | | Security & compliance — Meets enterprise requirements like SOC 2, GDPR, redaction controls, and audit logs. | Yes | Limited | | Flexible deployment options — Offers deployment via SaaS, private cloud, and on-premises to support data sovereignty. | Yes | No | | Custom metrics & APIs — Supports defining custom KPIs, uploading external data, and exporting via APIs. | Yes | Yes | | Business alignment metrics — Maps engineering activities to business goals like roadmap delivery, ROI, and initiative tracking. | Yes | Yes | | Qualitative feedback tools — Collects developer sentiment through surveys and feedback loops (e.g., DX surveys). | Yes | Yes | ## What our customers say Expedia By providing real time visibility, automation, and workflow control, LinearB enables our teams to focus on delivering value, improving developer satisfaction, and continuously optimizing our processes. Guillermo Manzo Director DevEx Papaya People are crazy about the tool. It's super helpful, saves time on PRs, and we hear only amazing feedback across the company. Can't image working without it. Michal Peleg CTO IKEA Same PR - 3 deliberate app-breaking changes, LinearB's AI review wins over copilot hands down! Sean Erswell CTO ## The LinearB impact Enterprises choose LinearB because metrics aren’t enough. Get real-time visibility and developer-first automations to measure and scale AI productivity outcomes. 3 hours Saved per developer, every week 19% Faster cycle time in the first six months 102 mil+ Developer workflows automated with LinearB 1 mil+ Engineers shipping faster with LinearB ## The industry perspective “Next-level recommendations: go beyond dashboards of metrics and insights, to solution fragments, such as patterns, scripts and templates that can be deployed to fix bottlenecks or inefficiencies.” Market Guide for Developer Productivity Platforms 2025 “Leaders can boost development team productivity by choosing developer productivity insight platforms with developer-focused automation.” Market Guide for Developer Productivity Platforms 2025 “To realize meaningful gains, leaders require real-time tools that are seamlessly integrated into the developer workflow.” Market Guide for Developer Productivity Platforms 2025 ## More resources [![Cover image for 2026 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_limit,w_2560/f_auto/q_auto/v1/Benchmarks_rountable_social_38edcc7b5d?_a=BAVMn6ID0)](https://linearb.io/resources/software-engineering-benchmarks-report) Report [2026 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report ](https://linearb.io/resources/software-engineering-benchmarks-report) Created from a study of 8.1+ M PRs from 4,800 engineering teams across 42 countries. [![Cover image for Engineering Leader's Guide to Developer Productivity](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_limit,w_2560/f_auto/q_auto/v1/Dev_Prod_Guide_743d3ef9ce?_a=BAVMn6ID0)](https://linearb.io/resources/engineering-leader-guide-to-accelerating-developer-productivity) Guide [Engineering Leader's Guide to Developer Productivity](https://linearb.io/resources/engineering-leader-guide-to-accelerating-developer-productivity) Discover how to quantify developer productivity, common blockers, strategies to improve it, and how and when to present dev productivity data. [![Cover image for Gartner® Market Guide: Developer Productivity Insight Platforms](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_limit,w_2560/f_auto/q_auto/v1/Blog_Gartner_3_7905feeac9?_a=BAVMn6ID0)](https://linearb.io/resources/gartner-dpi-market-guide) Guide [Gartner® Market Guide: Developer Productivity Insight Platforms](https://linearb.io/resources/gartner-dpi-market-guide) By 2028, 60% of Fortune 500 companies will use developer productivity insight platforms to track developer productivity, up from 15% today. In this guide from...