Navigara vs Jellyfish: how the two measure engineering throughput
In Navigara vs Jellyfish, both tools answer engineering questions for finance. Jellyfish reports where engineering investment went, joined to roster and payroll data. Navigara reports whether throughput has changed since your pre-AI year, is scored from the code, and can run entirely on your servers.
Key evaluation criteria
Navigara vs Jellyfish: where Navigara is different
Four differences a Navigara vs Jellyfish evaluation will run into. If you’re midway through one, book 20 minutes with us at navigara.com/contact.
AI return, measured against your own history
Jellyfish’s AI Impact module covers adoption, usage trends, token spend, and AI productivity insights. Navigara scores every merged change and compares the quarter with the same team’s pre-AI year. Pro reports “AI ROI: capacity added vs. spend.”
Your servers, end to end
Jellyfish publishes an on-premises agent that collects data and sends it to Jellyfish. Navigara can run the platform itself inside your network, fully on-premises and air-gapped if needed, or in the cloud with an on-prem collector that keeps source code within your perimeter.
A price you can read off the page
Jellyfish pricing “is based on number of seats and specific modules selected,” quoted by sales. Navigara’s Measure tier starts at $7 per developer per month for teams up to 30, and Pro starts at $30 per developer per month with no cap. A 40-engineer org can price Navigara from the website.
One report, five days, on-prem
The AI ROI report is $4,500 one-off, delivered in 5 days, and it “runs on-prem; your code never leaves.” It gives finance a number before anyone commits to a platform.
500 OSS Performance Index
The method, run in public.
Scored in the open, on public code
The 500 OSS Performance Index applies ETV to the open-source work of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Cloudflare, Vercel, and others, and reports it as ETV per engineer. It uses the same method that runs on your repositories and publishes it so anyone can check it.
Where Navigara and Jellyfish overlap
Software capitalization
Jellyfish’s DevFinOps module covers software capitalization, R&D tax credits, SOC 1 Type II compliance, and audit-ready reports. Navigara’s Pro tier derives the split from commits, with no timesheets or surveys; it cites IAS 38, ASC 350-40, and ASC 985-20, and can restate any past quarter.
Where the engineering quarter went
Jellyfish reports investment allocation across the org. Navigara splits merged work into features, maintenance, tests, docs and fixes, with a simpler Features / KTLO view for executive readouts.
AI spend
Jellyfish reports token spend by tool, team, or initiative. Navigara ties spend to changes in scored throughput. Finance usually wants both halves: what was spent, and what changed in the code.
Get started
Price it this afternoon.
Navigara’s tiers are on the pricing page, and connecting a repository starts the baseline. The one-off AI ROI report takes 5 days and runs on your servers.
Frequently asked questions
- Jellyfish vs Navigara for software capitalization: which fits?
- Navigara and Jellyfish both do it. Jellyfish’s DevFinOps module includes software capitalization, R&D tax credits and SOC 1 Type II compliance. Navigara derives the split from commits, with no timesheets or surveys, and can restate any past quarter. Ask each vendor which standards its reports cite, and take the answer to your auditor.
- Does Jellyfish run on-prem?
- Jellyfish publishes an on-premises agent that collects data from internal systems and sends it to Jellyfish. Ask Jellyfish what else can run inside your network. Navigara can run the whole platform on-premises, air-gapped if needed.
- Navigara or Jellyfish: which is better for proving AI-coding ROI to the board?
- Jellyfish’s AI Impact module covers adoption, usage, token spend, and productivity insights. Navigara compares scored throughput to the team’s pre-AI quarters and reports capacity added relative to spend. The board’s question has two halves, and Navigara focuses on the second.
- How does Navigara vs Jellyfish pricing compare?
- Jellyfish pricing “is based on number of seats and specific modules selected,” with quotes from sales. Navigara publishes Measure from $7 per user per month and Pro from $30.
- Can our code stay on servers?
- Yes. With the on-prem collector, “source code stays there; only metadata reaches the cloud.” With full on-premises, everything runs in your infrastructure, and you can keep it air-gapped if you need it. SSO, SCIM, and audit logs are included in every mode.
- How is ETV different from DORA, DX Core 4, or SPACE?
- DORA and cycle time describe how fast and how reliably work moves through the pipeline. DX Core 4 and SPACE add developer experience, partly through surveys. ETV scores the merged change itself, by kind of work, against the team’s own pre-AI quarters. Navigara’s guidance is to “keep the four pipeline metrics, add a measure of the value of each merged change.”
- Is this developer surveillance?
- Navigara scores merged commits. It doesn’t count keystrokes, hours, or tickets. The Measure tier includes per-developer breakdowns, and the docs tell leaders to “use team-level views as the primary lens,” because much of a senior engineer’s week never becomes a commit.
- Can Navigara do software capitalization / R&D capex?
- Yes, in Pro: “CapEx / OpEx reporting, audit-defensible.” The split comes from commits with no timesheets or surveys, cites IAS 38, ASC 350-40, and ASC 985-20, and can be re-run for any past quarter. “Every number traces back to the code.”
