Comparison

Plandek measures delivery. Performalise coaches it.

Last updated 27 August 2026

Plandek is delivery metrics for technology leaders: DORA, the four pillars, AI-adoption impact, and Dekka, an assistant that flags risk from the data. Performalise is Product Development Intelligence: a goal ladder from vision to sprint, drift caught inside the team from what was said as well as what was logged, and a coach who acts on it. The closest pair on this site.

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More successful sprints

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Stakeholder satisfaction

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Team improvement ideas

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Sprint predictability

The short answer

Choose by where you want the signal to come from

These two are the closest pair of the three engineering-intelligence platforms we compare against. Both read the toolchain, both flag delivery risk, both are built for technology leaders in the UK and Europe, and both have an AI assistant. The difference is where the signal comes from and who acts on it.

Choose Plandek if you want the widest metric catalogue (500+ metrics, DORA, the Focus, Speed, Predictability and Quality pillars), an AI-adoption measurement framework, and an assistant (Dekka) that surfaces risk for the leader from tool data.

Choose Performalise if you want the signal to come from what the team said in standup as well as what the tools recorded, scored against a goal ladder that runs from company vision to sprint goal, with a coach (Hans or Lotte) acting on it inside the sprint rather than a report landing on the manager's desk. Plandek answers "what is our delivery health"; Performalise answers "which work matters and who is drifting from it this week." If you only want the metrics, Plandek costs less. The difference buys the coach.

Goals, OKRs, drift and validated value

The part Plandek has no equivalent for

Every piece of work sits on a goal ladder from company vision down to the sprint goal. Drift shows up at the level it starts.

In Performalise every level of the ladder is a card with an owner, the teams on it, a progress figure and a status. Nobody types the status. It comes from said versus did inside the sprint and rolls up.

Level	Example	Owner · teams	Status
Organisational Vision	Make clean energy the obvious choice for every home	Eleanor Whitfield · no team	46% · On track
Business Objective	Reach profitability on residential installations	Callum Reid · Installations	25% · At risk
Product Vision	Installation in a single visit	Daniel Hargreaves · Installations, Battery Storage	25% · At risk, overdue
Product Goal	One-day battery installation kit	Daniel Hargreaves · Battery Storage, Installations	25% · Off track, overdue
Sprint Goal	Pre-wired battery cabinet	team level	Overdue

Drift is caught where it starts, then rolled up. One late sprint goal becomes an off-track product goal, then an at-risk objective, on the same screen, days before a status report could say so.
OKRs are translated, never cascaded. An objective becomes a sprint goal the team commits to. Performalise does not push OKRs down into tickets, and a ticket cannot claim it delivers a company vision on its own.
Validated value comes from what customers actually use. The value ladder is scored from product analytics (Microsoft Clarity, Google Analytics 4, Amplitude): adoption, retention, sentiment. Shipping moves the work ladder; usage moves the value ladder. Validated is not proven until an experiment says so, and Performalise says that too.

Where Plandek stands: Plandek's business-alignment metrics and its Focus pillar measure the share of effort on planned versus unplanned work against the roadmap. That is the closest of the three vendors to a goal view, and it is still effort-based rather than outcome-based. Its integrations page (checked 26 August 2026) lists Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, CI/CD, incident tools and AI coding assistants, and no product-analytics tool and no meeting or chat source. So Plandek can tell you the roadmap got the hours; it cannot tell you the customers used the result, and it cannot hear what the team said on Monday.

Performalise goal tree, demo data: an organisational vision at the top, two business objectives beneath it, then product visions, product goals and sprint goals, each card showing owner, teams, progress percentage and a status of on track, at risk, off track or overdue. — Demo data. The right-hand branch shows one late sprint goal rolling up to an off-track product goal and an at-risk objective.

What Plandek does well, and where it stops

Plandek is a serious, well-built platform and, for a UK-founded company, a familiar one to European buyers: named in Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for Developer Productivity Insight Platforms (May 2026), a catalogue of 500+ metrics, real-time Jira integration, a clear four-pillar framework, an AI-adoption method (RACER) and Dekka, an assistant that reads the data and flags risk. If you want the broadest delivery-metrics view of an engineering organisation, it is one of the best. It stops at four points that matter to a product leader:

The signal comes from tools only. No standup, meeting or chat input, so "blocked" said on Monday does not exist until a ticket moves.
Dekka advises the leader; it does not coach the team. The recommendation lands with the manager, who has to carry it into the sprint.
Alignment is measured as effort against the roadmap, not as outcomes against a goal ladder with a status per level, and there is no product-usage input to validate whether shipped work was used.
Pricing is per contributor ($25 to $55 per contributor per month depending on term and volume), so the cost scales with headcount rather than with teams.

None of that is a criticism of Plandek. It is the difference between delivery metrics, which measure how the organisation is delivering, and Product Development Intelligence, which asks whether the work moved the goal and changes what the team does next.

The detailed comparison

Feature-by-feature: Performalise vs Plandek

Capability	Plandek	Performalise
Reads the standup (Teams, Slack, Google Meet)	–	✓ Yes
Reads tickets (Jira, Azure DevOps, Linear)	Jira, Azure DevOps	✓ Yes
Reads code and deploys	GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, CI/CD	✓ GitHub, Vercel, Supabase
Said versus did (commitment vs outcome, daily)	–	✓ Yes
Coaching inside the team, every sprint	– (Dekka advises the leader)	✓ Hans or Lotte
Work scored against OKRs at team level	–	✓ Yes
Goal ladder: Organisational Vision → Business Objective → Product Vision → Product Goal → Sprint Goal	Roadmap alignment (effort-based)	✓ Yes, with owner, teams, progress and status per level
Drift detected in the sprint and rolled up (on track / at risk / off track / overdue)	Risk flags from tool data (Dekka)	✓ Yes, daily, from said versus did
OKRs translated into sprint goals, never pushed into tickets	–	✓ Yes
Validated value from product usage (Clarity, GA4, Amplitude)	–	✓ Yes
Delivery forecast as a range with confidence	Predictability pillar (sprint accuracy)	✓ ±4-6 weeks across a portfolio
DORA metrics and metric catalogue	Yes, 500+ metrics	✓ DORA as one input; fewer metrics, chosen around the sprint goal
AI-adoption measurement (RACER, AI Contribution Detector)	Yes	–
Developer experience surveys	Yes	✓ Team Voice (anonymous, continuous)
Individual developer scoring	Per-contributor metrics available	✓ Deliberately absent, patterns not people
Pricing basis	$25 to $55 per contributor per month, single plan	✓ Per team, from $450/team/month (annual), no per-user charge

The closest pair. Both read Jira, Azure DevOps and GitHub. Both flag delivery risk. Plandek's signal comes from the tools and lands with the leader; Performalise's signal comes from the standup as well as the tools, is scored against the goal, and lands with the team through a coach. See also: the 2026 shortlist of delivery intelligence tools →

Fit check

Who is Performalise not for?

We would rather tell you now than after a sprint. Performalise is not the right fit if:

You want individual productivity scores. We measure patterns, not people. There are no per-person leaderboards, and we will not build them.
Your teams do not work in Jira, Azure DevOps or Linear. Those are the front doors today. Other trackers are also supported, just talk to us.
You want a dashboard and no coach. The signal only becomes value when the AI Coach Hans or Lotte act on it inside the team. If nobody wants coaching, you would be paying for reports, which would be sad.
You want velocity as a productivity target. Velocity is a planning signal for the team that owns it. We will not turn it into a KPI or compare it across teams.
You measure success in output. Story points closed, tickets shipped, commits per week. We tie work to outcomes: usage, retention, OKR movement. If output is the scoreboard, the signal will keep disagreeing with it.
You want OKRs pushed down into tickets. We translate an OKR into a sprint goal the team commits to. We will not cascade OKRs as task lists.
You want a date, not a range. Forecasts arrive as ranges (±4-6 weeks across a portfolio) with the confidence behind them. If a single promised date is required, we will disappoint you honestly rather than precisely.

If none of those apply, see it in action →

When to use each

Plandek vs Performalise

Same buyer, different question.

Plandek is built for:

Delivery metrics for the technology leader, with an assistant that reads them.

500+ delivery metrics, DORA
Focus, Speed, Predictability, Quality pillars
AI-adoption measurement (RACER)
Dekka risk flags for the leader
Developer experience surveys
Real-time Jira and Azure DevOps

Performalise is for:

Product Development Intelligence for leaders who want a signal they can act on.

Goal ladder from vision to sprint goal
Drift caught inside the team, daily
Coaching through Hans or Lotte
OKRs translated, never cascaded
Value validated from product usage
Forecasts as ranges you can defend

Running both:

Less common than with Jellyfish or LinearB, because the overlap is larger.

Overlap on DORA and risk flags
No overlap on standups, OKRs, usage, coaching
Plandek if metrics breadth is the job
Performalise if the coach is the job
Both read Jira and GitHub read-only
Pick one as canonical for DORA

FAQs

Questions about comparing Performalise and Plandek

Is Performalise a DPI platform like Plandek? ▼

No. Gartner's category, Developer Productivity Insight, measures the engineering organisation from tool data, and Plandek belongs in it. Performalise is Product Development Intelligence: it measures whether the work moved the product, from the standup as well as the tools, and coaches the team while it does. They overlap on DORA and risk flags; they differ on where the signal comes from and who acts on it.

Can Plandek and Performalise run together? ▼

They can, and they read the same Jira, Azure DevOps and GitHub data read-only, so nothing conflicts. It is less common than pairing Performalise with Jellyfish or LinearB, because the overlap is larger. If you run both, make one canonical for DORA so you are not reconciling two numbers, and let Plandek own metrics breadth while Performalise owns the goal ladder and the coaching.

Which has more metrics? ▼

Plandek, by a distance: 500+ metrics across the four pillars. Performalise deliberately carries fewer, chosen around the sprint goal, the goal ladder and the value ladder, because the job is to give the team one thing to change this week rather than to give the leader everything to look at.

Does Plandek score outcomes against goals, or effort? ▼

Effort. Plandek's business-alignment metrics and its Focus pillar measure the share of work going to planned versus unplanned items against the roadmap, which is a useful view and the closest of the three vendors to a goal view. It does not carry a ladder from company vision to sprint goal with a status at each level, and its integrations list no product-analytics input, so it cannot say whether shipped work was used. Performalise does both.

Which is cheaper for 6 teams? ▼

Plandek at the low end. Six teams of eight contributors is $14,400 to $31,680 a year on Plandek's single plan ($25 to $55 per contributor per month, term and volume dependent, from plandek.com/pricing on 26 August 2026). Performalise Perform for six teams is $32,400 a year billed annually with coaches and stakeholders included. If you want metrics only, Plandek costs less. The difference buys the coach inside the sprint.

Does Performalise measure AI adoption? ▼

No. Plandek's RACER framework and AI Contribution Detector measure how much of the code came from Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code and similar tools and what that did to throughput. Performalise does not measure AI tools; it measures whether the work they produce moved the sprint goal and, later, whether customers used it.