It’s time to break up with Backstage.
Stop babysitting an open‑source framework. Unlock the IDP results you always expected.
Ready to migrate?
Talk to an expert for a no-cost audit of your Backstage instance
“Backstage is not a packaged service that you can use out of the box”
- Backstage FAQ
- Backstage FAQ
What would you ship if you could get 10,000 hours back every year?
Backstage is a framework. If you can afford to spend 10,000+* engineering hours to build your IDP, and another 10,000+ engineering hours every year maintaining it, then sure, maybe Backstage can be the right tool for you.
*5 FTEs for 1 year
Compare Cortex vs Building In-House
"What it comes down to is what you want to spend your time and energy on... in the end, the product that we end up with will be very similar to the thing that we can get off the shelf. And we could have been spending all that time doing things that we value more highly.”
Tyler Davis
Software Engineer
10% adoption can’t be the new normal
“The average Backstage adoption rate is stuck at 10%”
Head of Engineering
IDPs need to provide immediate value to get adoption
That’s why Cortex works for your whole engineering team.
Engineering leaders
Identify teams that meet your reliability standards, assess initiative impacts, and make data-driven decisions quickly.
Platform teams
Set requirements and enforce them. Automate migrations and workflows for faster team movement.
SRE teams
Enforce readiness, respond to incidents faster, and shift from reactive to proactive reliability.
Developers
Get context without leaving your IDE. See ownership, Scorecard gaps, and next steps directly in your workflow.
Cortex delivers successful IDPs for everyone.
Not just those who can afford to burn money on an IDP initiative that goes nowhere.
Why the world’s best engineering teams choose Cortex instead
We help multiple Backstage adopters migrate to Cortex every month. Here’s why enterprises switch:
50+ vendor‑maintained integrations
Hosted & upgraded for you
Scorecards, initiatives, and DORA metrics – built in
Solves service ownership with AI
Your team focuses on investments unique to your organization
ROI in < 6 months*
Community plugins you own & patch
You patch frequently and bump every package, dealing with breaking changes as they come
DIY scorecards, reporting, notifications, and more
Manual ownership initiatives that end up out of date immediately, you never solve ownership
Your team has to learn Typescript, React, and Backstage just to keep it running
6‑12 months just to launch the MVP
*Forrester report
Customers who switched to Cortex
Join these happy customers who migrated from Backstage — whose IDPs are now mission critical, not a never-ending Backstage initiative.
