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Don’t just report on engineering. Improve it.

Jellyfish gives leadership a clear readout of the business of engineering. Swarmia gives you that same readout — and the feedback loops that move the numbers.
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Swarmia is trusted by great software organizations from startups to enterprises
Miro
Bolt
Honeycomb
Engine
Parloa
Matillion
Lovable
TrueLayer
Aiven
Cleo
Trustpilot
Staffbase

What Jellyfish gets right

Jellyfish built its reputation on DevFinOps, and it earned it. Turning engineering work into investment categories, capitalization reports, and board-ready readouts is a real job, and Jellyfish does it well at large-org scale — with the portfolio and scenario planning, and the account management, that big organizations lean on.


That part isn’t in question. Jellyfish and Swarmia are Gartner Magic Quadrant Leaders — we both know how to produce a report that finance and the board will trust.


The real question is what happens after the report. A number on a slide doesn’t change anything on its own. That’s where the two platforms part ways, and it’s what the rest of this page is about.

“What I like about Swarmia is that all you have to do is connect it to your existing tools and then you get a whole bunch of information — without having to change your process or go through hours of consulting to make sure that the labels on the tickets are just right.”
Egan Royal
SVP of Engineering at Engine

Where Swarmia wins

Jellyfish is built to deliver the readout, and it delivers. Swarmia delivers it too — and then does three things a report on its own never can.

Built to improve the system, not just report on it

Jellyfish is built to report on the business of engineering: investment categories, capitalization, board-ready readouts for the CTO and the CFO. Swarmia covers all of that too — and then keeps going.

Signals surface trends before they turn into problems. Working agreements let teams set their own targets and get a nudge in Slack or Teams the moment something slips. The people steering the org and the teams doing the work look at the same data. So a year from now, you’re not just opening a tool before board meetings. You’re opening one that helped improve the numbers you’re presenting.

Data your engineers believe and your auditors accept

Trust is where capitalization deals are won, and Swarmia has the receipts. Our FTE model was validated against traditional time tracking at a company with 800 engineers and came out about 95 percent accurate, without anyone logging a single hour. Reports are SOC 1 audited and have passed Big Four scrutiny, including KPMG, with drill-down from a top-level capitalization percentage all the way to individual commits.

Nearly all of that data updates in real time, the calculations are transparent, and there’s no hidden magic to take on faith. With Swarmia, the setup stays accurate as the org changes, rather than drifting from a configuration that was set once during onboarding.

Fits your org, not the other way around

Most platforms, including Jellyfish, only pay off once your data is pristine: perfect Jira hygiene, cross-team process alignment, and a standing reliance on the vendor to make changes for you. Getting there is a project of its own, and it doesn’t really end.

Swarmia is opinionated by design. It works out of the box without demanding perfect Jira hygiene or a company-wide process overhaul first. Teams that work differently can still be compared side by side, without being forced into one rigid way of working.
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“Swarmia offers visibility to different metrics for people in different roles. For individual contributors you get insights about your code, for teams you get information about how you are performing and how you are living according to your team agreements, and for management overall insights about how the whole development organization is doing.”

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IT Services
“Swarmia offers easy and flexible onboarding. The same flexibility is used across the whole software.”

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Media
“Swarmia has been an absolute game-changer for me and my team on collaboration and code management. It has provided us with the much-needed clarity and insights into our work, helping us identify areas that require attention.”

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Software
“We've been really happy with Swarmia. It gives the much needed visibility for developers to see their own development metrics.”

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“I am exceptionally happy with the decision to bring in the use of Swarmia as part of the product team’s development tools. Swarmia has enabled the team to make appropriate changes to increase development speed, based on the data of our earlier performance.”

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Software
“I can highly recommend Swarmia. The tool was really easy to deploy, and it provides a lot of good insights. Also, our developers love the Slack integration.”

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Software
Let’s set the record straight
Isn’t Jellyfish the safer choice for a large enterprise?

Both Swarmia and Jellyfish are Gartner Magic Quadrant Leaders, and Swarmia runs capitalization and engineering intelligence for organizations well into the thousands of engineers. The difference is whether the data only reports the business of engineering or also helps improve it.

Can Swarmia handle software capitalization as rigorously as Jellyfish?

Yes. Automated FTE-based effort tracking, rule-based categorization, SOC 1 audited reports, Big Four acceptance including KPMG, and drill-down to individual commits. The FTE model has been validated at about 95 percent accuracy against traditional time tracking.

Does Swarmia give finance and the board the reporting they expect?

Yes. Investment balance, capitalization, and initiative tracking are all board-ready. The difference is that the same data also drives the working agreements and signals that move those numbers between board meetings.

Can Swarmia measure the impact of AI coding tools?

Yes. Swarmia tracks adoption, usage, and cost across AI coding tools, and connects that to engineering metrics so you can see what the investment is returning.

Is Swarmia a black box?

No. Calculations are transparent, and you can drill from any number down to the underlying work, including individual commits. Nothing you have to take on faith.

Can Swarmia roll up metrics across many teams?

Yes, from a single team to your whole organization, with the same numbers visible to leadership and the teams doing the work.

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