Haystack
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Haystack, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Haystack's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Growth | $20 | Suggested for teams under 100 engineers · Unlimited Alerts · 12 Month Historical Data · Email & Slack support · Account Specialist Support · per member per month, with annual commitment |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | For teams of 100+ engineers · Everything in Growth · On-Premise / Custom Integrations · Dedicated Performance Specialist · Quarterly Performance Reports · Team Training / Onboarding Sessions · Custom pricing. Contact us. |
The facts
Each one read from Haystack's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Authentication
- The security page says Haystack supports single sign-on and stores credentials salted and encrypted using BCrypt.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Delivery data
- It ingests data from Jira, Git, and releases to create a delivery data layer from commit to release.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Historical insights
- Haystack can backfill six months of historical data and surface insights such as injections, scope creep, risks, and trends.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Hosting and encryption
- Haystack says its infrastructure and data are hosted in Google Cloud and data in transit is encrypted using 256-bit encryption.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The pricing page says Haystack supports GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab, with self-hosted installations including GitHub Enterprise and GitLab Enterprise on the Enterprise plan.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- Pricing is based on the number of team members added to Haystack.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Haystack links Git and Jira to help product and engineering teams deliver software faster and more predictably.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Release notes
- Its Delivery Pulse feature turns tickets and commits into automated release notes and provides weekly progress summaries.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Repository access
- Haystack says repository access uses encrypted SSH or TLS connections and that it never writes to repositories.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Slack alerts
- Haystack can send Slack notifications about team achievements, risks, and progress.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Source code handling
- Haystack says it does not persist source code files and stores metrics and necessary metadata instead.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Growth plan includes email and Slack support, and account specialist support.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founding
- A Haystack article says the company was founded in 2020 by Julian Colin and Kan Yilmaz.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Intended team size
- The product pages describe the service as intended for teams of 20 or more developers.checked 9 Oct 2026
Money
- Trial
- Haystack offers a 14-day free trial that does not require a credit card.checked 9 Oct 2026
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