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Comparison

Earthly vs Nx

No leader: the top candidate Nx has only 0.29 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Earthly full profile →Nx full profile →
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Earthly40
Nx62
Score
Vioscale score
Earthly40 / 100medium · 52%
Nx62 / 100low · 29%
Pricing
Free tier
Earthly–
Nx✓
Model
Price level
Earthlyunknown
Nxlow
Transparent
Earthly–
Nx✓
Integrations
Count
Earthly4
Nx4
Security
Soc2
Earthly✓
Nx–
Reliability
Status page
Earthly✓
Nx✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for ci/cd tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Hosting
EarthlyCloud only
NxCloud + self-hosted
Self-hosted runners
Earthly-
Nx✓
Core
Config-as-code pipelines
Earthly✓
Nx-
Matrix / parallel builds
Earthly-
Nx-
Build
Container-native builds
Earthly-
Nx✓
Performance
Build caching
Earthly-
Nx✓
Security
Secrets management
Earthly-
Nx✓
Delivery
Deployment environments & approvals
Earthly-
Nx-
Ecosystem
Reusable actions / marketplace
Earthly✓
Nx✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Earthly

A governance platform that automates enforcement of engineering standards, policies, and compliance requirements as guardrails in pull requests and CI/CD workflows. Provides real-time visibility into code quality, testing, deployment practices, and other development lifecycle metrics across teams and services.

Independently observed

Nx

Nx Cloud is a remote caching and CI optimization platform for monorepos that accelerates build pipelines through distributed task execution and intelligent artifact caching.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Earthly

Quote-based
as of verify ↗

Nx

from $2.25/moHybridFree tier

Free Hobby tier with 50k credits/month. Team plan from $19/contributor/month with metered usage. Enterprise with custom pricing.

  • HobbyFree
    • 50,000 credits monthly reset
    • 5 complimentary contributors
    • 10 concurrent CI connections
    • All Nx Agents resource types
    • Basic analytics
    • +1 more
  • Team$19/contributor/month + $5.50 per 10k credits + $2.25/CI connection/month
    • Everything in Hobby
    • Email support
    • Pay-as-you-go for additional contributors, credits, and CI connections
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Everything in Team plan
    • Conformance rules
    • Circular dependency detection
    • Cross-repo visibility
    • CI observability
    • +9 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Earthly✓
Nx✓
CLI
Earthly✗
Nx✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Earthly✓
Nx✓
Self-hosted
Earthly✗
Nx✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Earthly

4 total
  • GitHub
  • Claude
  • OpenAPI
  • Swagger
Independently observed

Nx

4 total
  • Cursor
  • GitHub Copilot
  • JetBrains
  • GitHub Actions
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.