--- title: "Outgrowing Bulldozer? Migrate to Mergify" description: "Although Bulldozer is a solid open-source solution for auto-merging, chances are it will slow you down when your team and CI grows. Try Mergify for more advanced merging and smart CI workflows." url: https://mergify.com/migrate/bulldozer --- # Outgrowing Bulldozer? Although Bulldozer is a solid open-source solution for auto-merging, chances are it will slow you down when your team and CI grows. Try Mergify for more advanced merging and smart CI workflows. [Start a free 14-day trial](https://dashboard.mergify.com/)[Talk to our team](https://mergify.com/discovery) ## Why teams move beyond Bulldozer B Bulldozer Mergify Auto-merge PRs ✓ ✓ Merge Queue Parallel checks & batching – ✓ 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 Bulldozer & Mergify in parallel for a week to notice the benefits. 1Export Send us your existing .bulldozer.yml 2Install Drop your customized Mergify's config 3Enable Enable Merge Queue 4Evaluate Run side-by-side with Bulldozer 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/bulldozer/) Bulldozer got us started, but as soon as we hit scale, our CI was constantly overloaded. **We postponed but should have transitioned to Mergify earlier.** JG Jona Gistao Senior Software Engineer at CloudRail We previously used Bulldozer but with Mergify's Merge Queue **we cut our CI runs by 40% and we got really good visibility into flaky tests.** RM Rohit Malhotra DevOps Engineer at Stackline ## 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)