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Trunk

Freemium
code qualitylintingdeveloper toolsci/cdstatic analysismerge queuedevopsautomationdevex

Trunk is a powerful developer-first platform that effectively consolidates code quality, merging, and CI monitoring, making it a high-value addition for teams looking to streamline their development lifecycle.


An all-in-one toolkit for developers to check, test, merge, and monitor their code, helping teams ship quality software faster.

Trunk is a developer experience platform designed to improve software quality and engineering velocity. It bundles several critical development tools into a single, unified workflow. Its core component, Trunk Check, runs a vast ecosystem of linters, formatters, and static analyzers in the background, catching issues on a developer's local machine before the code is ever committed. This pre-commit checking process is extremely fast thanks to a persistent daemon and repository-level caching. Beyond local code quality, Trunk offers a Merge Queue to automate the process of merging pull requests, preventing broken builds on the main branch by testing changes in combination before they land. Finally, its CI Analytics provides insights into the health and performance of your continuous integration pipeline, helping teams identify and fix flaky tests. Trunk is built for engineering teams of all sizes who want to standardize their tooling, reduce CI costs, and create a smoother, faster path from code to deployment.

Pros

  • Consolidates multiple dev tools (linting, merging, analytics) into one platform
  • Significantly speeds up local development cycles by catching issues pre-commit
  • Enforces consistent code quality and formatting across an entire team
  • Generous free tier suitable for individuals and small teams
  • Merge Queue is a robust solution for protecting the main branch
  • Excellent documentation and easy setup for popular languages and frameworks

Cons

  • Can have a learning curve for teams unfamiliar with advanced Git tooling
  • Merge Queue and CI Analytics features require GitHub
  • As a unified toolkit, it may be less configurable than dedicated, standalone tools

Key features

  • Unified linter, formatter, and static analyzer runner (Trunk Check)
  • High-speed pre-commit checks run by a background daemon
  • Automated merge queue to prevent breaking the main branch (Trunk Merge)
  • CI performance and test flakiness monitoring (CI Analytics)
  • Repository-wide, versioned configuration for consistent tooling
  • Extensible plugin system supporting hundreds of open-source tools
  • Inline issue reporting directly in your PR or IDE (VS Code, JetBrains)
  • Git hook management to enforce checks before pushing code

Integrations

GitHubSlackVS CodeJetBrainsESLintPrettierBlackFlake8Go-vetRubocop

Target audience

Software engineering teams and individual developers


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Founded

2021

Headquarters

San Francisco, USA

Pricing Tiers

Free

Free

Pro

$12/mo


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