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.

Swarmia offer immediate and instant visibility over DORA metrics. These are relevant at the team level and simplify the activity of collecting them and organise them in a single place. Those metrics can trigger valuable conversation for the team. At the same time, Swarmia offer data relevant for the leaders, like investment balance or FTE cost, which help to validate intentions and assumptions related to the strategic direction an organisation is taking. The team is very supportive and ready to explain and to help. The onboarding with them was effective, so the UX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Use cases like a developer changing a team could be better managed. I know they are working on an integration with incident.io that could improve the visibility and analysis of the KTLO data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.