March 2025
Compass vs. Cortex
Set up a world-class developer experience with an enterprise-grade brand you trust.
Compass offers a complete developer portal right out of the box:
Improve your DevEx with a unified catalog
Reduce cognitive load with a comprehensive software component catalog - track details like ownership, dependencies, docs, CI/CD events, and more
Get a complete picture of your DevOps health
Apply best practices at scale - measure health metrics, build and communicate policies, and empower teams to improve operations
Connect your data across your entire toolchain
Easily integrate all of your observability, CI/CD, OSS, cloud infrastructure data to save time searching and reduce context switching for your devs
Integrate best practices and ship faster with templates
Accelerate delivery and decrease toil with templates - integrate best practices quickly and build components along golden paths
See why thousands of customers choose Compass to improve their developer experience:
Feature Comparison | Compass | Cortex |
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| Software catalog | Compass
| Cortex
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| Software templates | Compass
| Cortex
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| Scorecards to measure and improve service health | Compass
| Cortex
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| Workflow automations | Compass
| Cortex
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| Observability and error tracking integrations | Compass
| Cortex
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| Configuration-as-code for data management | Compass
| Cortex
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| Default user and team management | Compass
| Cortex
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| Support included | Compass
| Cortex
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| Cloud app development platform with fully open APIs | Compass
| Cortex
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| Free to get started | Compass
| Cortex
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| Alerts and on-call scheduling | Compass
| Cortex
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| Native Jira integration | Compass
| Cortex
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Why choose Compass over Cortex?
Minimize your tool sprawl – don’t add to it. With Compass, you’ll realize the benefits of a developer platform with native integrations in the Atlassian ecosystem and a lower cost ownership. Choosing the Atlassian Cloud suite helps teams focus on building great software by reducing tool sprawl and the cognitive load associated with today’s complex developer experience.
Organizations of all shapes and sizes choose Compass
Compass is the largest internal developer platform, chosen by thousands of organizations to improve their developer experience. See why ExpressVPN relies on Compass to catalog its components and preserve a culture of autonomy.
“Our developers are able to maintain autonomy over their services and keep up best practices, but most importantly we’ve reduced cognitive load by getting things out of our heads and into one unified place.
David Varvel
VP of Engineering, Culture, ExpressVPN
Scale engineering best practices and tame software sprawl
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