Sleuth vs LinearB

A decision aid, not a feature dump. Both ship CFR; the buying signals differ.

Oliver Wakefield-Smith

Founder, Digital Signet. Built siemcost / monitoringcost / itbudgetcalculator.

Updated 21 Jun 2026

Direct answer

Sleuth's Team plan around $25/dev/month Sleuth Pricing2026 is similar in price to LinearB Essentials at $29/user/month LinearB Pricing2026. Sleuth wins on deploy-tracker depth and PagerDuty-driven CFR detection. LinearB wins on workflow analytics + gitStream automation + capacity allocation.

Where they differ

Sleuth was built around deploy tracking from day one; its CFR pipeline is the most opinionated in the market and works out-of-the-box with a 60-minute PagerDuty correlation. LinearB started as workflow analytics and added DORA later; its CFR pipeline is good but serves a broader use-case (allocation, branch automation, capacity reporting).

Decision rule

If the buying question is "we need defensible CFR fast," Sleuth. If the question is "we need a single workflow analytics tool for the eng org," LinearB. At 150 devs the all-in cost difference is under $7K/year between the two; pick on fit, not price.

What both share

Both ship the 2024 DORA-aligned CFR formula DORA Four Keys2024, both support PagerDuty as a failure source, both export to common warehouses, and both work without a multi-month integration project.