Jellyfish vs Haystack: Developer-first metrics that drive real results

Haystack puts your team at the center—not finance. While Jellyfish leans into budgeting and portfolio views, Haystack focuses on engineering performance, delivery health, and team velocity. It’s the visibility you need to lead—and the simplicity your devs won’t push back on.

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For teams of 20+ developers

Jellyfish vs Haystack

Feature

Built for engineering delivery teams

(finance-oriented)

DORA & flow metrics

Easy for developers to adopt

(steeper learning curve)

Budget-focused reporting

Transparent pricing

(custom quotes)

Visual simplicity

(complex reports)

Focused on delivery

We don’t offer vague ‘productivity stats’. Enable teams to unblock delivery, automate workflows, and improve every week.

All signal, no noise

We only provide key delivery metrics, proven to drive success. Get the insights you need and nothing more.

Built for team adoption

Your teams drive delivery improvements. We’ve designed Haystack to enable better delivery, every day.

“I don't have to chase things anymore, Iit's like I have a radar looking for blockages.”

- Zachary Zimmerman, Engineering Manager at The Economist

Enable your teams, don’t just measure them

Dedicated tooling for leaders and teams.

Improving delivery isn’t about measuring teams, it’s about enabling them. Haystack offers dedicated dashboards, alerts, and insights for teams themselves. Helping them drive delivery improvements while giving leadership the visibility they need.

Improve delivery at every level.

Unblock delivery, every day

Real-time insights on blockers.

Weekly trends don’t improve delivery. Our team delivery portal gives teams daily insights on blockers impacting their sprint, issues, bugs, and code review.

Everything you need to keep delivery on track.

Actionable insights without the bloat

Focus on what matters, delivery.

We remove the vague, distracting, and harmful ‘productivity stats’ - focusing purely on improving delivery. Get weekly diagnostics of your delivery bottlenecks and concrete opportunities to improve.

Insights you’ll actually use

Showcase your real impact

Replace status updates with celebrations.

Drive continuous improvement by celebrating your achievements. Get automated release notes, milestone achievements, and status updates.

Drive a delivery-focused culture.

Jellyfish vs Haystack: Developer-first metrics that drive real results

Jellyfish vs Haystack