Side-by-side record
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 | |
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| Audyense Score | 49AS*Low | 33AS*Low |
| Positioning | Remote container build service and CI runners for dramatically faster Docker builds | Engineering productivity and delivery intelligence |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS | Cloud / SaaS, Hybrid |
| Best fit | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise |
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| AI features | NoDepot is focused on build acceleration and does not market AI/ML features as part of its core product. | — |
| Alerting & on-call | NoNot 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 pipelines | YesCore 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 tracing | NoNo distributed tracing capability. | — |
| Incident management | NoNo incident management workflows. | — |
| Infrastructure monitoring | NoNot an infrastructure monitoring product; manages build infrastructure but does not monitor customer infra. | — |
| Log management | PartialSurfaces build logs and build insights/analytics for its own builds, but is not a general-purpose log aggregation platform. | — |
| Public API | YesProvides a public API/SDK and CLI for managing projects and builds programmatically. | — |
| Self-hosting / on-prem | PartialPrimarily a fully-managed cloud service; enterprise arrangements can use dedicated infrastructure, but there is no standard self-hosted/on-prem deployment. | — |
| Engineering metrics | — | YesMeasures delivery and workflow performance. |
| Developer experience surveys | — | YesAdds qualitative feedback to engineering metrics. |
| Workflow automation | — | YesAutomates actions around pull requests and delivery. |
| AI code reviews | — | YesSupports AI-assisted engineering workflows. |
| Project forecasting | — | YesEnterprise features support planning and investment views. |
| Incident metrics | — | YesConnects delivery and operational signals. |
| Slack and Teams automations | — | YesRoutes engineering workflows into collaboration tools. |
| On-prem agents | — | PartialAvailable on Enterprise plans. |
| Integrations verified | — | 12+ |
| Aggregate rating | 5.0 · 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 |
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