Comparison
Forge vs Jellyfish
Feature matrices are spin by construction, so this page compares only what you can check yourself: how each side counts a billable person, what the published numbers say at a few team sizes, and which promises about per-person data exist in writing.
What Jellyfish is
Jellyfish is an engineering management platform for larger organizations — resource allocation, delivery tracking, and R&D cost capitalization for the exec and finance audience. Some credit before the comparison:
- R&D cost capitalization and exec-level allocation reporting are real, hard problems Forge does not attempt.
- For an organization of many hundreds of engineers, a sales-led contract with procurement support may genuinely be the right shape.
Forge is narrower on purpose: the review tax read from merged pull requests, estimates with confidence bands graded against what work actually cost, and commitments sized to real capacity — as a layer beside the tracker you already run.
How each side counts a billable person
Jellyfish
engineering seats whose work is tracked — sized in a sales process, priced in a custom annual contract.
Forge
a covered contributor — someone who authored or reviewed an analyzed pull request in the last 30 days, counted from the repo. Nobody provisions a list; bots are excluded; quiet months roll off; viewers are always free.
- Jellyfish publishes no list pricing. Every figure circulating publicly comes from third-party contract databases, so none is quoted here.
- What is checkable: there is no pricing page, quotes follow a sales conversation, and contracts are annual.
The published numbers, side by side
There is no table here because Jellyfish publishes no prices — quotes come out of a sales process, sized to your org, in an annual contract. Numbers do circulate in third-party contract databases, but they are not checkable, so this page does not repeat them.
Forge’s quote is a formula you can run yourself: $299/month for 15 covered contributors, then $12 per additional — so 40 is $599 and 60 is $839. The difference in mechanics is the comparison: one price arrives after a call, the other is computed from your repo before you have spoken to anyone.
The promise only one side publishes
Every tool in this category reads per-person activity; the question is what the org gets to see. Forge’s answer is structural and public: per-person review load is shown only as a distribution — concentration, counts, never a named ranking — and each person’s energy ledger lives in their own account, where no org-side query can reach it. The promise is written down, from the engineer’s side, at /privacy-for-engineers.
This page makes no claim about what Jellyfish shows a manager — go look, or ask them for the equivalent page. The comparison is simply that one side has put the promise in writing where every engineer can read it, and invites the other to.
What this page cannot tell you
- Whether Jellyfish’s breadth is worth more to you than Forge’s read. They do things Forge does not, and the reverse; a price table cannot weigh that.
- Whether the prices above are still current. They were read on 2026-08-04; vendors move pages and change tiers. The links are there to be followed.
- What a negotiated contract would actually cost you — published list prices are where a negotiation starts, not where it ends.
Why the pricing works this way: Why Forge doesn’t sell seats. Other comparisons: Swarmia · LinearB
The fastest way to judge Forge is the number itself: read a repository free — no account, nothing installed.