CircleCI vs. GitHub

CircleCI

53 Reviews and Ratings

GitHub

1,099 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CircleCI	Score9.5 out of 10	N/A	CircleCI is a software delivery engine from the company of the same name in San Francisco, that helps teams ship software faster, offering their platform for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Ultimately, the solution helps to map every source of change for software teams, so they can accelerate innovation and growth.	$0 for up to 6,000 build minutes and up to 5 active users per month
GitHub	Score9 out of 10	N/A	GitHub is a platform that hosts public and private code and provides software development and collaboration tools. Features include version control, issue tracking, code review, team management, syntax highlighting, etc. Personal plans ($0-50), Organizational plans ($0-200), and Enterprise plans are available.	$4 per month per user

Pricing

CircleCI

GitHub

Server: Contact Sales
Performance: starting at $15
per month
Scale: starting at $2000
per month

Team: $40
per year per user
Enterprise: $210
per year per user

Pricing Offerings
CircleCI	GitHub
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	CircleCI	GitHub
Considered Both Products	CircleCI Verified User Chose CircleCI We use CircleCI when we need a good, independent CI/CD provider in an existing workflow. That said, we've begun investing more heavily in GitHub actions as it's closer to where our code is stored. CircleCI is a feature of a workflow, and can be filled by many different service … Incentivized Helpful? Paul Hepworth VP Engineering in Engineering at UserTesting.com (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose CircleCI Circle was the first CI with simple setup, great documentation, and tight integration with GitHub. Using Jenkins was too much maintenance and overhead, TeamCity was limited in how we could customize it and run concurrent builds, TravisCI was not available for private repos when … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CircleCI Based on the cost for feature set that we needed we went with CircleCI. There were also more people on our team that knew how to use CircleCI already compared to other products which made it a preferred choice for ramp up. Other products were not as robust and quick to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CircleCI CircleCI is the only product we've used. Incentivized Helpful? Dillon Welch Director Of Engineering in Engineering at Tempest, Inc. (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees) Chose CircleCI While the UI on CircleCI is not my favorite, it's leagues better than Travis CI. I really like Heroku CI much better, but the functionality is much more limited there. If Heroku CI had the same functionality as CircleCI, I probably wouldn't use CircleCI. Incentivized Helpful? Valeri Karpov Platform Tech Lead in Engineering at Booster Fuels (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 11-50 employees) Chose CircleCI Jenkins is usually self-hosted, Travis CI's infrastructure is largely unreliable (lots of tests time out for no discernable reason), and Semaphore encourages you to configure your CI/CD from a web UI. We like CircleCI because its hosted, our tests run largely as expected on … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Crawford Co-Founder & CEO at Fieldbook (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose CircleCI It was our CTO who did the evaluation, not me, but as I recall other services weren't as parallelizable. We knew we wanted to run on many containers simultaneously for fast test results. Incentivized Helpful? Gregory Ratner Co-founder, VP of Engineering in Engineering at Troops (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose CircleCI For us it really came down to CricleCI being the fastest and simples tool to get started with. The GitHub integration is slick and seamless and the scripting config file allowed us to configure our entire build system, including tests, in less than a day. It's very light weight … Incentivized Helpful? Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose CircleCI Travis has full YML configuration in areas where CircleCI is slightly lacking still, which is great, but CircleCI offers more features, settings, and potential performance. Codeship is simpler to use, you can use it entirely from their UI without modifying your Git repository at … Incentivized Helpful? Micah Hausler System Engineer in Engineering at Skuid (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose CircleCI The biggest downside to CircleCI is that it doesn't support parameterized builds, that is testing your code against language version X and Y, or framework version A and B. Beyond that, it is really a great product. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Shell Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at Pinpoint Software, Inc. (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose CircleCI I had used Travis CI in some of my open source projects. However, it was too expensive for us so I looked for an alternative that was in our budget. Scrutinizer is also very useful, but also out of our budget. When we get larger I could see myself using Scrutinizer for quality … Incentivized Helpful? Austin Riendeau Application Engineer in Engineering at Bitly (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose CircleCI I think these three tools are just as good as the other except that Travis CI supports mobile a lot better but price wise, CircleCI is the best that I have found and is supports the need for a startup. For a long while, CircleCI had Docker support before Codeship but now, Codesh… Incentivized Helpful?	GitHub Andrew Shell Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at Pinpoint Software, Inc. (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose GitHub We picked GitHub because it's what I was most familiar with when we started. We're testing out self-hosted Gitlab because it not only handles all the features we're using on GitHub, but it also has a continuous integration service which is currently implemented by a third party … Incentivized Helpful? Anand Chhatpar CTO in Engineering at Growth Champ, a service by Fame Express LLC (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose GitHub Github and git, in general, is much better than SVN or Subversion for version tracking and code collaboration. It takes the best parts of SVN and fixes a lot of what was broken with it. Github's own UI has evolved really well over time and they have taken developer productivity … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering in Engineering at NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose GitHub Github is the clear industry leader in collaborative software development -- we use it because it has superior tooling, integrations with third parties, and hosts a lot of the open source code that we use every day. Bitbucket is a better fit for organizations that are deeply … Incentivized Helpful? Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose GitHub In my opinion, GitHub beats all of the competition. The other services offer some things that could be considered benefits in some scenarios: Bitbucket has good integration with other Atlassian products, Gitlab is self-hosted and completely free, Beanstalk integrates with some … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Ngo Software Engineer in Engineering at RIT (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose GitHub Local storage of your repository is not exactly the safest thing you should do, since if you lost your project, you lose your project. This is not really a great alternative when you are considering it over using some thing you can access from any computer at any time. GitHub … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

CircleCI

GitHub

Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of CircleCI and GitHub
Feature	CircleCI - Ratings	GitHub 7.9 2 Ratings
Branching and Merging	00 Ratings	9.82 Ratings
Version History	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Version Control Collaboration Tools	00 Ratings	7.12 Ratings
Pull Requests	00 Ratings	9.72 Ratings
Code Review Tools	00 Ratings	7.82 Ratings
Project Access Control	00 Ratings	8.22 Ratings
Automated Testing Integration	00 Ratings	7.42 Ratings
Issue Tracking Integration	00 Ratings	4.12 Ratings
Branch Protection	00 Ratings	9.42 Ratings

User Ratings
	CircleCI	GitHub
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (26 ratings)	9.0 (123 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	7.8 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	6.9 (6 ratings)	8.8 (26 ratings)