DX Core 4 Benchmarks

The DX Core 4 is a framework for measuring developer productivity that encapsulates DORA, SPACE, and DevEx. Explore benchmarks based on data spanning 500+ companies.

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Diffs per engineer

The number of pull requests merged each week, per engineer, excluding pull requests that are created by bots.

Developer Experience Index

The Developer Experience Index (DXI) is a measure of key engineering performance drivers. Learn more

Change fail percentage

The percentage of production changes which result in degraded service, impairment, or outage.

Innovation ratio

The percentage of time spent building new features and capabilities, as opposed to maintenance, support, and bug fixes.

3.63 per week 4.27 per week 4.95 per week
3.12 per week 3.59 per week 4.44 per week
< 100 engineers
3.53 per week 4.32 per week 4.73 per week
3.12 per week 3.59 per week 4.44 per week
100-500 engineers
3.21 per week 3.59 per week 3.61 per week
2.99 per week 3.36 per week 3.59 per week
500+ engineers
64 77 84
61 71 77
< 100 engineers
60 72 79
61 71 77
100-500 engineers
59 72 77
59 68 73
500+ engineers
3.9% 3.32% 3%
4.14% 3.97% 3.54%
< 100 engineers
3.94% 3.46% 3.3%
4.14% 3.97% 3.54%
100-500 engineers
4.56% 4.41% 4.25%
4% 3.84% 3.81%
500+ engineers
61.76% 64.34% 67.81%
57.98% 61.43% 62.99%
< 100 engineers
57.32% 63.39% 65.31%
57.98% 61.43% 62.99%
100-500 engineers
56.06% 61.4% 64.23%
56.44% 60.01% 61.36%
500+ engineers