Report
2026 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report
Created from a study of 8.1+ M PRs from 4,800 engineering teams across 42 countries.
Competitors
LinearB vs. Flow
Flow customers switch to LinearB because they have high-level visibility, but no way to actively improve their developer productivity.
Trusted by the teams transforming software delivery
Why companies choose LinearB
Flow provides useful metrics and Jira reporting. LinearB does too.
But LinearB goes much further as an end-to-end engineering productivity platform that actually improves your developer experience, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Orchestrating and measuring AI workflows
Flow helps you visualize basic engineering metrics via a dashboard UI. LinearB gives you control over how AI is applied to your team workflows, quantifies the impact of your AI investment, and ensures your team maintains standards and compliance without getting bogged down by process.
Developer productivity insights
Flow provides the minimum reporting requirements for engineering leadership. Many of their former customers might even challenge this statement.
Companies like IKEA, Expedia, and Adobe choose LinearB over Flow because our platform provides deep, quantitative and qualitative insights, the most comprehensive benchmarks (based on 3rd party frameworks used by leading companies), and the automations you need to actually solve problems for your developers.
Team coaching, forecasting, and executive support
While Flow is noodling away on more ways to measure individual developers, LinearB is giving engineering leaders the ability to forecast project delivery, automate cost capitalization, coach developers, and allocate their resources to deliver better outcomes for the teams that they serve.
Stop buying dashboards. Start helping your developers do more.
LinearB
Pluralsight Flow
The industry perspective
Market Guide for Developer Productivity Platforms 2025
The LinearB impact
Enterprises choose LinearB because metrics alone aren't enough. Get the ability to define exactly how code is brought to production.
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Time saved per developer using AI and workflow automations
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Reduction in cycle time in the first year
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Average LinearB automations run per PR
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Software engineers using LinearB for a better experience
More resources
Guide
Engineering Leader's Guide to Developer Productivity
Discover how to quantify developer productivity, common blockers, strategies to improve it, and how and when to present dev productivity data.
Guide
Gartner® Market Guide: Developer Productivity Insight Platforms
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...