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Should I use DevRel Directory?

The main place for Developer Relations: guides, tools, communities, and jobs for DevRel professionals. - devrel.directory

· 11 hours ago

DevRel professionals should bookmark it: a free, human-curated map of tools, jobs, salaries, and strategy guides. Anyone outside developer relations, or expecting a supported SaaS product, has nothing to buy here.

Confidence

Medium. Based on ~15 public sources; no independent user reviews of the product were found.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of useNo third-party usability evidence found
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo support model documented in sources
  • Security posture

Pricing

Not disclosed

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed

Best for

  • DevRel pros comparing tools
  • Developer advocates job-hunting
  • Founders standing up a DevRel function
  • AI agents needing DevRel data

Not for

  • Anyone outside developer relations
  • Buyers wanting SLAs and vendor support
  • Teams needing compliance-grade vendor vetting
  • Non-DevRel marketers shopping for software

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Free resource, but no SLA or support terms; curation relies on maintainers' bandwidth

medium

No security page; don't treat it as a compliance-grade vetting source

low

Listing re-check cadence isn't published; data can drift between updates

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Every listing hand-reviewed; unstated vendor facts shown as blank
  • Covers 700+ DevRel programs
  • Read-only MCP server exposes listings to agents
  • Job listings disclose salary where posted
  • Listings re-checked by people after going live

Cons

  • No public security page
  • Update pace depends on one or two maintainers
  • Job board is small — 12 open roles at review time

Sources & method

- 10 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

official x5review x3security x1news x1

Key stats

  • Value for money: 5/5

    Rating

  • Not disclosed

    Starting price

  • 10

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 5/5. Open knowledge base; no pricing found
  • Ease of use. No third-party usability evidence found
  • Feature depth: 4/5. Tools, jobs, CFPs, guides, salaries, MCP API
  • Support quality. No support model documented in sources
  • Security posture: 3/5. Read-only content site; no public security page
  • 700+ DevRel programs covered per book dataset reference
  • 7 of 12 Open roles with disclosed salary as of Sep 2026
  • 1,125 tokens MCP server footprint 6 read-only tools, 0.6% of a 200k context

Pricing

Not disclosed

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

Independent commentary is sparse: third-party observers praise the curation effort while flagging how maintenance-heavy it is.

“Forty updates to the devrel directory in three weeks is not a pace I can hit on my own.”
X (Twitter), @0xfabs
“Keeping the DevRel Directory up to date isn't a two person job :)”
Medium — James Parton

Companies that use it

  • Okta
  • Datadog
  • Polkadot
Full analysis

Based on ~15 public sources; no independent user reviews of the product were found.

Free, hand-curated DevRel map of tools, jobs, and guides. Use it if you do DevRel; skip it if you don't.

Methodology

Based on ~15 public sources; no independent user reviews of the product were found.

Read how a report is made.

Sources

  1. DevRel Directory — homepagedevrel.directory
    official
  2. Agent-ready DevRel toolsdevrel.directory
    official
  3. DevRel Salariesdevrel.directory
    official
  4. How we curatedevrel.directory
    official
  5. Forty releases in: what devrel.directory is nowdevrel.directory
    official
  6. Security pagedevrel.directory
    security
  7. DevRel Directory MCP Server Token Costpolicylayer.com
    review
  8. 0xfabs on Xx.com
    review
  9. The Developer Relations Program Directoryjamesparton.medium.com
    review
  10. Apress/Developer-Relations source codegithub.com
    news

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