Swarmia Pricing Overview

Swarmia is easy to connect to tools you are probably already using, like Jira and your Github organization account.

Everything feels fresh, good looking and, though there are many metrics and graphs, quite easy to get along.

It has quickly become my main hub to check pending PRs, the work focus for each member of the team and follow up on the targets that we as a team have agreed upon.

It's also great to show and share with our managers, so they can have a glance of how good the development team is performing and improving.

The customer service was also really helpful, and they have answered my questions and are taking my feedback into account.

Last, but not least, we are currently a small development of just 5 members, though we might hire 1 or 2 more in the following months.

Swarmia has a free plan for up to 9 developers, with no restrictions on the available features, so even though I don't consider it expensive on the paid plans, for us right now is a no brainer, no excuses to try it out.

2025 update: I wanted to share that after almost 2 years using Swarmia on a daily basis, it's become our main tool for managing the developers and teams quality of work, identify issues and promote improvements for our own processes. I highly recommend giving it a try, as I don't want to imagine my worklife now if I were to lose this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I just found a few pain points while using Swarmia:

- Right now I cannot see completed tasks by user, only task creation. The done tasks are only shown by team.

2025 update: this was solved by the dev team a while back, a few weeks after my suggestion, so it is no longer a problem!

- It needs an existing PR to show the ongoing commits, so until the PR gets created there can be days where a given developer seems to be doing nothing.

- It requires a bit of a mental and working shift, as it works best if your team follows their recommendations, which admittedly is kind of the point of their promised improvement, but still can cause some friction to some people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Intuitive UI and a wide range of collected/reported information.

The custom support has been very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lacking a documentation that could be used to easily find description of various reported metrics and how those are calculated. The UI actually tries to help with that by providing some descriptions in tooltips, but that was not very helpful when evaluating the feasibility of using this tool as it meant we had to actually get a trial account and setup a bunch of integrations before getting more clarity on some things that could have been covered by documentation.

Pricing model could have been a bit more flexible - you don't get any savings by choosing 2 out of 3 available modules.

Currently Jira integration is a bit weak, lacking features on integrating the Story Point and release information and reporting on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.