Navigara vs LinearB: throughput measurement comparison
In Navigara vs LinearB, LinearB shows how fast work moves, cycle time, DORA metrics, and pull request size, benchmarked against more than 8.1 million pull requests. Navigara shows how the merged work scores against your team’s pre-AI year, and it can run entirely on your servers.
Key evaluation criteria
Navigara vs LinearB: where Navigara is different
Four differences a Navigara vs LinearB evaluation will run into.
Speed and substance, measured separately
Cycle time records a refactor, a performance fix and a dependency bump as three merges with three durations. ETV scores each one by the kind of work it was, then compares the quarter with your pre-AI year. Pro sets that change against AI spend. If you’re midway through a Navigara vs LinearB evaluation, book 20 minutes with us at navigara.com/contact.
The platform inside your network
LinearB’s Enterprise tier lists on-premises agents. Navigara can run the platform on-premises, air-gapped if needed, or in the cloud with an on-premises collector, where “source code stays there; only metadata reaches the cloud.”
A starting tier under 30 developers
LinearB positions Essentials ($29 per user per month, billed annually) for “engineering teams with 50+ developers.” Navigara’s Measure tier starts at $7 per developer per month for teams up to 30. At Pro ($30), the two list prices are $1 apart, so compare what each tier includes.
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.”
500 OSS Performance Index
The method, run in public.
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’s the method behind every Navigara score, published where anyone can check it.
Key evaluation criteria
Where Navigara and LinearB overlap
Three areas Navigara and LinearB both cover, and how each one gets there.
Delivery reporting from Git
Navigara and LinearB both read Git and pull request data. LinearB turns it into cycle time, DORA, and PR-size benchmarks, and automates workflows that act on them. Navigara scores the merged change and recommends keeping the four pipeline metrics alongside it.
AI spend attribution
LinearB measures “AI consumption across pull requests, developers, teams, models, and vendors” for tools including Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Navigara reports the capacity added against that spend.
R&D capitalization
LinearB’s Enterprise tier lists “R&D cost capitalization.” Navigara’s Pro tier derives the split from commits with no timesheets, cites IAS 38, ASC 350-40 and ASC 985-20, and can restate any past quarter.
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Keep the cycle time. Add the baseline.
Connect a repository and Navigara scores back through years of commits, so the pipeline metrics you already track get a second column: what shipped.
Frequently asked questions
- LinearB vs Navigara for AI-coding ROI: which fits?
- LinearB measures AI token consumption across pull requests, developers, teams, models, and vendors. Navigara measures return by scoring throughput against the pre-AI year and setting it against spend. A team fixing a flow problem gets more from LinearB. A team answering the board on AI spend gets more from Navigara.
- Does LinearB do software capitalization?
- Yes. LinearB’s Enterprise tier lists “R&D cost capitalization.” Navigara’s Pro tier derives the split from commits, with no timesheets, and can restate any past quarter.
- Does LinearB offer an on-prem option?
- LinearB’s Enterprise tier includes on-premises agents. Ask LinearB what runs inside your network beyond the agent. Navigara can run the full platform on-premises, air-gapped if needed.
- How does Navigara vs LinearB pricing compare?
- LinearB publishes Essentials at $29 and Enterprise at $59 per user per month, billed annually, with a 45-day free trial. Navigara publishes Measure from $7 per developer per month for teams up to 30, and Pro from $30 with no cap. Below 30 developers, Measure is the cheaper start. At Pro, check what each tier includes before comparing rates.
- Can our code stay on our 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 come with 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.”
