Discount with code applied — 50% off Pro or Max for 6 months
COMPARE · ZEST VS LINEARB
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LinearB's pricing page says Essentials is built for teams of 50 or more developers and bills at least 50 users, at $29 a user a month, billed annually.[1] At that minimum 5 engineers pay $1,450 a month; Zest charges $49 for the workspace.
LinearB acts on pull requests with programmable workflows and AI code reviews; Zest doesn't touch them. It reads each engineer's agent sessions and shows which ones ended in a merged pull request, with their tokens and cost.
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.
USED BY ENGINEERING TEAMS AT
AT A GLANCE
 Zest | LinearB | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for, in its own words | Engineering teams that run coding agents, at any size: the price is per workspace. | Essentials: “engineering teams with 50+ developers”, billed for at least 50 users; Enterprise: 100+.[1] |
| Cost for 5 engineers | $49/mo for 5 engineers: one Pro workspace, seats included. | $1,450/mo for 5 engineers: Essentials at $29 a user a month, billed annually, for at least 50 users.[1] |
| Cost for 20 engineers | $334/mo for 20 engineers: one Pro workspace, seats included. | $1,450/mo for 20 engineers: Essentials at $29 a user a month, billed annually, for at least 50 users.[1] |
| PR automation or AI review | No: Zest doesn't comment on, route or block pull requests. | Yes: Programmable PR workflows (gitStream), AI code reviews and auto-written PR descriptions.[1] |
| Git hosts | GitHub only, through the Zest GitHub App. | Essentials: GitHub Cloud only. Enterprise adds GitHub on-prem, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.[1] |
| How it reads AI coding | A plugin or extension in each engineer's coding agent reports every session: model, tokens, skills and MCP tools. | Detects AI activity across tools (active users, acceptance rates, AI-assisted PRs), with integrations for Claude, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and Devin.[2][3] |
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.
LinearB's pricing page describes Essentials as “built for engineering teams with 50+ developers” and Enterprise, at $59 a user, as built for 100+; each bills at least that many users, annually. Essentials supports GitHub Cloud only. A 45-day trial needs no payment method, so a small team can try LinearB before the minimum applies.
LinearB's gitStream applies rules to pull requests: routing, approvals, labels, AI code review and generated descriptions. Zest doesn't comment on, route or block a pull request. It works upstream of it: which agent, model and skills produced the work, what each session cost, and how long its pull request took to merge. The two can run on the same repository.
Monte Carlo project forecasting, resource allocation and R&D cost capitalization come with LinearB Enterprise, not the $29 plan. Zest has none of them. Swarmia sells capitalization as an $18 module and includes it in its free plan under 10 developers, and the Jellyfish alternatives page compares seven tools on it.
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
Essentials is $29 per user a month and Enterprise $59, both billed annually, for at least 50 and 100 users, per LinearB's pricing page (checked October 4, 2026).
Yes. The 45-day trial needs no payment method; once you buy Essentials, LinearB bills at least 50 users.
No. Zest doesn't comment on or block pull requests. It measures the AI coding sessions behind them and what merged.
