Azure DevOps Server vs. Azure DevOps Services

Azure DevOps Server

294 Reviews and Ratings

Azure DevOps Services

479 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure DevOps Server	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.	N/A
Azure DevOps Services	Score7.7 out of 10	N/A	Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System) is an agile development product that is an extension of the Microsoft Visual Studio architecture. Azure DevOps includes software development, collaboration, and reporting capabilities.	$2 per GB (first 2GB free)

Pricing

Azure DevOps Server

Azure DevOps Services

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Azure Artifacts: $2
per GB (first 2GB free)
Basic Plan: $6
per user per month (first 5 users free)
Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted: $15
per extra parallel job (1 free parallel job with unlimited minutes)
Azure Pipelines - Microsoft Hosted: $40
per parallel job (1,800 minutes free with 1 free parallel job)
Basic + Test Plan: $52
per user per month

Pricing Offerings
Azure DevOps Server	Azure DevOps Services
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Azure DevOps Server	Azure DevOps Services
Considered Both Products	Microsoft No answer on this topic	Microsoft Verified User Chose Azure DevOps Services Beside all cloud benefits, the main advantage Azure DevOps Services compared to Azure DevOps Server is the easier remote access for third party team members, and always up to date software. On the other hand, on prem deployment (Azure DevOps Server) makes complex access or … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure DevOps Services Compared to other tools we have used, Microsoft STS has been a much more complete tool. Communication, collaboration, tracking, management, automation, testing, speed to production—all these areas have been improved since we started using Microsoft STS. We have been looking for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure DevOps Services Excellent tool when used in Microsoft technology environment. Incentivized Helpful? Clay Horste Software Developer III in Engineering at Opus Solutions (Events Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Azure DevOps Services Our TFS was dated and in some ways was quite crude. VSTS is thoroughly modern and I don't have to worry about updating it since MS is always updating VSTS. Also, VSTS has better integration with other products such as JIRA than our older TFS would. I am sure you could integrate … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Wu Analista Desenvolvedor Pleno in Information Technology at FACIL ASSIST (Insurance, 201-500 employees) Chose Azure DevOps Services Being its predecessor, VSS has a very limited team-sharing view, providing little to no multiple-user, multiple-project support. Considering the fact that Microsoft has purged its support in favor of TFS and VSTS, it's only reasonable to believe they have something extra. Git … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure DevOps Services Very simple to setup, easy connection to Visual Studio, nice web UI. Incentivized Helpful? Jake Smith Owner at The Great Void Marketing Lab (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose Azure DevOps Services Haven't used a lot of similar products that have the full feature set as Visual Studio. It's highly effective development platform especially when used with SVN and TFS makes large Agile project easy to manage and collaborate. Incentivized Helpful? Raylene Wall, PMP Business Analyst at InnovaSystems International, LLC (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Azure DevOps Services I haven't used any other products, so I can't say how VSTS/TFS would stack against any competitors, but I know that for an SDLC management tool, VSTS/TFS has everything you need to help an organization meet the requirements needed to adhere to the specific/general practices … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Azure DevOps Server	Azure DevOps Services
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (48 ratings)	8.1 (68 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (4 ratings)	6.6 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (10 ratings)	8.1 (11 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)