Comparison

DevStats (CNCF) vs Jellyfish

DevStats (CNCF) and Jellyfish both land on Depends.

DevStats (CNCF)

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Free, read-only dashboards for tracking CNCF open source project activity . useful if that is your job, but not a product you buy.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you lead a 100+ engineer org needing R&D analytics for exec reporting . it's the category's most established player.

DevStats (CNCF) versus Jellyfish
Compare	DevStats (CNCF)	Jellyfish
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	CNCF project maintainers	Engineering leaders at 100+ dev orgs
Who it's not for	Engineering leaders measuring private team productivity . it only sees public CNCF repos	Startups under ~50 engineers . serious overkill
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁵	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.¹⁴
Support quality	No evidence on support.	No usable evidence in sources reviewed
Public sentiment	Public feedback is sparse: users enjoy contribution visibility, while CNCF's own site warns the stats may be inaccurate.^⁹	G2 users consistently praise Jellyfish's visibility, while pricing is the recurring complaint, and the vendor cites a 90% recommendation rate.
Biggest gotcha	Accuracy: CNCF's own site warns stats can be wrong; don't treat them as authoritative.^²	Pricing is opaque . expect a sales process and quotes starting near $19K/year¹⁵

Engineering leaders measuring private team productivity . it only sees public CNCF repos
Non-CNCF open source projects without serious self-hosting effort
Buyers wanting a supported, SLA-backed product
Anyone comparing to the commercial $15/mo DevStats . different product, same name