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Depot vs. LinearB

Built from each tool’s researched, reviewed record. Figures are checked against public pricing pages at research time — always confirm current pricing with the vendor before buying.

The short version

Depot starts at $20 per seat, versus LinearB at $29.

Full comparison

Depotfrom $20 per month
LinearBfrom $29 contributor/month
Audyense Score49AS*Low33AS*Low
PositioningRemote container build service and CI runners for dramatically faster Docker buildsEngineering productivity and delivery intelligence
Free tierNoNo
DeploymentCloud / SaaSCloud / SaaS, Hybrid
Best fitSMB, Mid-market, EnterpriseSMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Pricing plans
  • Developer$20
  • Startup$200
  • BusinessCustom pricing
  • Essentials$29
  • Enterprise$59
AI featuresNoDepot is focused on build acceleration and does not market AI/ML features as part of its core product.
Alerting & on-callNoNot an alerting or on-call product; provides build status but no incident alerting.
Application performance monitoring (APM)NoNot an APM tool; scope is container/CI build performance, not application runtime monitoring.
CI/CD pipelinesYesCore use case: remote container builds, faster GitHub Actions runners, and Depot CI integrate directly into CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins and more.
Distributed tracingNoNo distributed tracing capability.
Incident managementNoNo incident management workflows.
Infrastructure monitoringNoNot an infrastructure monitoring product; manages build infrastructure but does not monitor customer infra.
Log managementPartialSurfaces build logs and build insights/analytics for its own builds, but is not a general-purpose log aggregation platform.
Public APIYesProvides a public API/SDK and CLI for managing projects and builds programmatically.
Self-hosting / on-premPartialPrimarily a fully-managed cloud service; enterprise arrangements can use dedicated infrastructure, but there is no standard self-hosted/on-prem deployment.
Engineering metricsYesMeasures delivery and workflow performance.
Developer experience surveysYesAdds qualitative feedback to engineering metrics.
Workflow automationYesAutomates actions around pull requests and delivery.
AI code reviewsYesSupports AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Project forecastingYesEnterprise features support planning and investment views.
Incident metricsYesConnects delivery and operational signals.
Slack and Teams automationsYesRoutes engineering workflows into collaboration tools.
On-prem agentsPartialAvailable on Enterprise plans.
Integrations verified12+
Aggregate rating5.0 · 3 reviews · No reviews yet
Integrations
GitHub ActionsGitLab CICircleCIBuildkiteJenkinsBitbucket Pipelines+6 more
GitHubGitLabBitbucketAzure DevOpsJira CloudJira Server+6 more
Security & compliance
SOC 2
SOC 1 Type IISOC 2 Type II
Pros
  • Dramatic build-speed improvements (commonly reported multiples up to 40-55x) via remote BuildKit and shared persistent caching
  • Extremely easy adoption, often a single-line change to an existing Dockerfile build or CI workflow
  • Exceptional, proactive support directly from the founders and engineers, including help optimizing Dockerfiles
  • Native Intel/Arm/multi-arch builds without emulation, plus per-second billing that avoids per-minute rounding
  • Actionable delivery metrics
  • Workflow automation
  • Public pricing
  • Good repository and project-system coverage
Cons
  • Very thin third-party review presence (only ~3 G2 reviews), so independent validation at scale is limited
  • Early-stage edge cases have been reported (e.g., builds failing on git submodule changes), though the team resolved them
  • Introduces a dependency on a third-party managed build service, a concern for teams wary of vendor lock-in or external build infrastructure
  • Usage-based overage costs can accumulate for teams with very high build volume beyond included minutes
  • Contributor pricing can scale
  • Metrics require careful interpretation
  • Advanced features are enterprise-oriented
  • On-prem options are limited to higher tiers
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