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DX, part of Atlassian since November 2025, pairs developer experience surveys with delivery metrics and a laptop daemon that measures AI-written code.[1][2][3] It sells after a demo, and its AWS Marketplace listing starts at $15,000 a year.[4]
Zest runs no surveys. A plugin in each engineer's coding agent reports what the agent did, session by session, and Zest joins it to the pull requests that merged; you sign up without a demo.
Zest gets you:
Free for 3 seats · No credit card
Winding / Teams Last 30 days 
Zest
| Member | AI | PRs/wk | AI Task | Plan | Impl | Last Standup | AI Stack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22.8/wk | 28 min ago | ||||||
| 15.8/wk | 12 min ago | ||||||
| 4/wk | Aug 14 | ||||||
| — | 2 hours ago |
Demo setups use current model families. The pairings above are the combinations benchmarked by Artificial Analysis; rankings measure performance, not popularity.
Illustrative daily trends · Other totals: last 30 days. Build Hours: this week, model-estimated activity including overlap; not engineer hours.
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AT A GLANCE
 Zest | DX | |
|---|---|---|
| Who sells it | Zest, self-serve: sign up and connect GitHub, no demo. | Atlassian, which completed its purchase on November 10, 2025; DX sits in its Software Collection with Bitbucket.[1][5] |
| Developer surveys | No: Zest runs no developer surveys. | Yes: Research-based surveys: the Developer Experience Index (DXI), DevSat and experience sampling.[2] |
| DORA metrics | No: Zest has no DORA metrics: pull request throughput and cycle time from GitHub only. | Yes: The DX Core 4 framework “unifies DORA, SPACE, and DevEx”.[6] |
| How it reads AI coding | A plugin or extension in each engineer's coding agent reports every session: model, tokens, skills and MCP tools. | A CLI daemon on each machine tells AI from human code, line by line, “without source code leaving the machine”.[3] |
| Cost for 5 engineers | $49/mo for 5 engineers: one Pro workspace, seats included. | From $1,250/mo for 5 engineers: the AWS Marketplace listing starts at $15,000 for a 12-month contract, plus $672 for each additional active contributor.[4] |
| Free plan or trial | Yes: Starter is free for 3 seats, no credit card. | No: No free plan or self-serve trial; you start with a demo.[2][4] |
Facts from each vendor's own pages and AWS Marketplace listings, dated in the sources below. ✓ listed, – partly, × not listed on the pages we read, which is not proof the product lacks it.
Atlassian completed its purchase of DX on November 10, 2025, and lists DX in its Software Collection beside Bitbucket, Pipelines and Rovo. getdx.com still sells it as DX, after a demo; the AWS Marketplace listing starts at $15,000 for a 12-month contract, plus $672 for each additional active contributor. A team that already runs Jira and Bitbucket now buys DX from the same vendor.
DX's surveys (the Developer Experience Index, DevSat and experience sampling) ask engineers where their time goes, and its Core 4 framework folds DORA, SPACE and developer experience into one set of measures. Surveys catch friction that no log shows, and they take a program to run: questions, reminders, a response rate. Zest reads system data only, from the coding agents and GitHub. More on the frameworks in developer productivity metrics.
DX's CLI daemon runs on each machine and marks lines as written by AI or by a person, without source code leaving the laptop, then reports the share of AI code by commit, pull request and repo. Zest starts a step earlier, inside the agent: the model, tokens, skills and MCP tools of each session, and the pull request it led to. DX tells you how much of the code AI wrote; Zest shows how each engineer works with the agent.
The two overlap little: DX for surveys and benchmarks across the org, Zest for each engineer's agent sessions and daily standup. If you want surveys in the same tool as finance reports, Span and Jellyfish offer both.
TRY IT ON YOUR TEAM
Starter is free (3 seats, no credit card). Pro is $49 a month with 5 seats and Max is $149 a month with 10 seats — priced per workspace, not per engineer, with extra seats at $19 a month.
A FEW THINGS TO KNOW
Yes. Atlassian completed its acquisition of DX on November 10, 2025, and lists DX in its Software Collection (checked October 4, 2026).
DX doesn't publish prices on getdx.com. Its AWS Marketplace listing starts at $15,000 for a 12-month contract, plus $672 for each additional active contributor (checked October 4, 2026).
No. Zest measures the AI coding work itself: sessions, models, skills, MCP tools and the pull requests they led to. DX's surveys and benchmarks are its strength.
