Comparison
Cortex is a developer experience platform for platform engineers. Glue is codebase intelligence for product teams. Different buyers, different problems.
Cortex is a DevEx platform:
Best for: Platform engineering teams managing dozens of services and needing visibility into ownership and reliability.
Glue reads code to answer business questions:
Best for: Product managers and CTOs making decisions about roadmaps and feasibility.
Cortex: Sold to platform engineers (for internal use) Glue: Sold to product managers and CTOs (for decision-making)
| Need | Cortex | Glue |
|---|---|---|
| Track service ownership | Yes | No |
| Service reliability scoring | Yes | No |
| Reduce on-call burden | Yes | No |
| Answer "how long will this take" | No | Yes |
| Understand code architecture | No | Yes |
| Make roadmap decisions faster | No | Yes |
Large companies might use both:
No competition. Different problems.
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