Report
2025 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report
Created from a study of 6.1+ M PRs from 3,000 engineering teams across 32 countries.
Competitors
LinearB vs. Swarmia
LinearB goes beyond rudimentary engineering metrics to deliver workflow insights and automations that actually boost developer output.
Accelerating the future of engineering
Why data-driven leaders choose LinearB over Swarmia
Metrics Depth
Business Alignment
Automation
Dev Coaching
Comprehensive metrics coverage for all factors contributing to engineering productivity - out of the box.
Developer Productivity
Developer Experience
Predictable Project Delivery
Resource Allocation
Value at all levels of the organization
Fully customizable with drill-down and zoom-out capability
A strategic tool for engineering leaders, product leaders, CTOs, and CIOs.
Resource Allocation
Investment profile
Planning & Capacity Analysis
Algorithmic forecasting
Platform engineering control center
Programmable workflows to streamline your PR pipeline with automations to reduce toil and enforce best practices.
Library of pre-built automations
Create custom automations
Analytics dashboard to quantify time savings
Assign code experts, auto-approve, apply labels, track GenAI impact, and more
A dedicated Dev Coaching & Team Development module for data-driven 1x1s and professional growth.
DevEx plus health & burnout tracking
Code knowledge areas and coding languages
Collaboration effectiveness across the PR release process
Team overlays to highlight strengths & development areas
Swarmia
Basic metrics with no tools to improve. Help with engineering visibility but limited strategic business impact.
- Standard metrics and dashboards
- Basic forecasting
- No workflow automation
- No developer coaching
- If you are serious about SEI and improving productivity, you will outgrow Swarmia quickly
Focused on operational metrics over strategic alignment and investment.
- Limited depth for resource allocation
- Simple forecasting
- No automation to improve DevEx
- Superficial and opaque benchmarks
- Canāt set team goals aligned to KPIs
- Basic coaching tools
No gitStream equivalent. You are on your own to find a solution - acquire another tool or build-your-own.
No tools to help platform engineers and DevOps teams implement workflow automation, drive consistency, and scale best practices.
No standardized way to assess and improve professional development across the organization.
Limited āDeveloper Overviewā
Four reasons enterprises love LinearB
Predictable SW delivery
Hit your milestones, surface & mitigate risk, and use algorithmic forecasting instead of intuition. Give product teams and project managers the insights and reporting they demand.
Resource Allocation
Understand how resources are allocated and where you are investing. Align engineering effort to business priorities and measure cost. Focus on new value creation and revenue-generating activities.
Industry benchmarks
In-app benchmarks to identify improvement areas, set objective targets, and track progress. Get a holistic view of engineering health and understand āwhat great looks likeā based on data from 3,000+ teams, 6.1M+ PRs, and 32 countries.
Tools for every role & use case
Analytics for the CEO to the developer. Resource allocation, cost management, and reporting for leaders. Predictable project delivery for PMs. Remove bottlenecks and automate to improve DevEx. Goals and coaching to raise team performance.
Developer productivity by the numbers
developer experience
1 mil+
Join over one million software engineers and enhance your developer experience
Time to Market
-19%
Reduce your cycle time by an average of 19% in your first year with LinearB
Automated
4
weeks/yr
3 hrs a week returned to every developer
Platform
The Engineering Productivity Platform
Everything you need to help your developers build, version, and deploy changes - safely and effectively.
Explore the Platform
From 50% DORA health scores to 98% in less than 6 months. LinearB has given our business critical telemetry and attribution for our engineering teams."
Matt Culver
Engineering Chief of Staff, Super.com
Integrations
Intelligence across your entire stack
Integrating with hundreds of tools, our platform was built for self-service flexibility. That means you donāt have to change your ways of working, methodology or tools in order to gain insights.
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
GartnerĀ® Market Guide: SEI Platforms
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