--- title: "Outgrowing Bors? Migrate to Mergify" description: "Although Bors laid the groundwork for merge queues, it's now largely deprecated and no longer maintained. If your team needs an actively supported solution with advanced merge queues and CI-aware workflows, Mergify is the natural upgrade." url: https://mergify.com/migrate/bors --- # Outgrowing Bors? Although Bors laid the groundwork for merge queues, it's now largely deprecated and no longer maintained. If your team needs an actively supported solution with advanced merge queues and CI-aware workflows, Mergify is the natural upgrade. [Start a free 14-day trial](https://dashboard.mergify.com/)[Talk to our team](https://mergify.com/discovery) ## Why teams move beyond Bors B Bors Mergify Auto-merge PRs ✓ ✓ Merge Queue Parallel checks & batching Limited ✓ Flaky test handling Auto-retry, quarantine tests, prevention – ✓ CI cost & speed control Job cost tracking, batching to reduce runs – ✓ Merge templates Custom commit messages – ✓ Priority rules – ✓ GitHub-native integration Limited ✓ Used by the platform teams that ship fast and keep CI green "Two-step CI completely transformed how we handle long hardware tests. Instead of burning hours on repeated runs, we validate once and merge with confidence." Rushin Shah, Sr. Manager DevInfra · Cerebras "The merge queue is a huge value from Mergify: it keeps our main stable and allows us to merge quickly with confidence." Minh Tran, Platform Engineer · Apex Fintech Solutions "You get the benefits of Mergify immediately. There is no competitor doing stuff like this." Florian Berchtold, Software Engineer · Luminar "The merge queue is a time-saver! Contributors no longer have to carry the mental load of monitoring their PRs!" Johan Lorenzo, Staff Release Engineer · Mozilla "We transitioned from manual chaos to over 20 safe deploys per day. Mergify is becoming a critical part of our delivery function." Chris Irving, Engineering Manager · Jane "Our merge queue is like a safety net. Every PR that lands has been tested, approved, and verified under the exact same conditions." Fabien Marty, Senior Staff Software Engineer · Botify "With dozens of engineers and long-running CI jobs, Mergify turned what used to be a daily bottleneck into a background process. Our teams focus on hardware, not merge logistics." Ben Holtzman, Senior Design Enablement Engineer · AheadComputing "Before Mergify, we spent too much time manually coordinating merges. Now everything flows automatically." Nicolas Beaussart-Hatchuel, Senior Staff Software Engineer · PayFit "Mergify was the best fit. It saved a couple of hours per engineer per month and resolved our bottleneck with the merge queue." Tomas Nekolny, Engineering Manager · Productboard "The support on Slack is really good, reactive and transparent. We have other partners where problems feel less transparent. With Mergify, it's fluid." Clément Danjou, VP Blockchain · Zama ## Evaluate Mergify with ease No need to make a decision right out of the gate. Just try and run Bors & Mergify in parallel for a week to notice the benefits. 1Export Send us your existing bors.toml 2Install Drop your customized Mergify's config 3Enable Enable Merge Queue 4Evaluate Run side-by-side with Bors for a week. 5Switch Switch fully when you're confident. **Ready to try?** Get an extensive step-by-step in our guide [Migration guide](https://docs.mergify.com/migrate/bors-ng/) We started out with Bors and it did the job at first. But as the team grew, our CI kept getting clogged and the lack of updates really showed. **Honestly, we should've moved to Mergify way sooner.** AR Alex Ramirez CI Engineer at LoopStack We outgrew Bors. **Mergify not only stabilized our merge process but also gave us cost visibility on CI runs — something we never had before.** TC Taylor Collins Staff Software Engineer at Shipyard ## Teams that merge more and break main less. [ ### 2x merge throughput with 3‑hour CI runs Read story → Cerebras 350 engineers · AI Infrastructure ](https://mergify.com/customers/cerebras) [ ### Cut CI time and kept main green Read story → Apex Fintech Solutions 350 engineers · Financial Technology ](https://mergify.com/customers/apex) [ ### 2x faster merges across a massive monorepo Read story → Back Market 300 engineers · E-commerce ](https://mergify.com/customers/back-market) [ ### 100% green main, faster shipping Read story → PayFit 150 engineers · HR Tech ](https://mergify.com/customers/payfit) ## Move faster. Break less. Mergify merges more than half a million pull requests a month without breaking main. [Get started](https://dashboard.mergify.com/)[Talk to our team](https://mergify.com/discovery)