Core 4 Benchmarks

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

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Diffs per engineer

The number of pull requests merged each week, per engineer.

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.

3.8 per week 4.67 per week 5.53 per week

3.01 per week 3.88 per week 5 per week

< 100 engineers

3.5 per week 4.1 per week 4.99 per week

3.35 per week 3.7 per week 4.21 per week

100-500 engineers

3.32 per week 4.05 per week 4.55 per week

3 per week 3.31 per week 3.4 per week

500-2500 engineers

3.35 per week 3.99 per week 4.13 per week

3.06 per week 3.46 per week 3.62 per week

2500+ engineers

66 76 83

67 75 81

< 100 engineers

66 72 77

69 74 79

100-500 engineers

67 73 78

70 74 77

500-2500 engineers

64 70 74

66 70 74

2500+ engineers

4.02% 3.46% 3.05%

3.95% 3.38% 3.06%

< 100 engineers

4.16% 3.77% 3.42%

4.04% 3.66% 3.4%

100-500 engineers

4.26% 3.93% 3.79%

4.25% 3.91% 3.81%

500-2500 engineers

4.82% 4.42% 4.19%

5.26% 4.78% 4.38%

2500+ engineers

57.83% 61.72% 65.06%

57.98% 59.74% 63.9%

< 100 engineers

57.82% 61.04% 63.72%

56.58% 59.01% 62.42%

100-500 engineers

59% 61.27% 62.84%

55.42% 57.53% 59.56%

500-2500 engineers

57.5% 59.38% 60.59%

56.82% 59.35% 60.75%

2500+ engineers