CircleCI vs. Jenkins

CircleCI

53 Reviews and Ratings

Jenkins

474 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
Jenkins	Score8.3 out of 10	N/A	Jenkins is an open source automation server. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. As an extensible automation server, Jenkins can be used as a simple CI server or turned into a continuous delivery hub for any project.	N/A

Pricing

CircleCI

Jenkins

Server: Contact Sales
Performance: starting at $15
per month
Scale: starting at $2000
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Pricing Offerings
CircleCI	Jenkins
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	CircleCI	Jenkins
Considered Both Products	CircleCI Sagiv Frankel Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at WeWork (Internet, 10,001+ employees) Chose CircleCI CircleCI is a sass product which means you don't need to maintain your own servers. This can also be a negative as you are dependent on their service. This also means you can't ssh into a machine to see what went wrong like you can with Jenkins. However for most users this … Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Rocketrip (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose CircleCI CircleCI does a lot of what we need it to do; however, I believe Jenkins is a better Continuous Integration tool. Jenkins has more capabilities and integrations. In addition, Jenkins is a much more widely used tool, which means more developers are familiar with it and have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CircleCI Not having to manage / deal with a Jenkins server is fantastic. I don't have much personally against Jenkins. I've set up and run a Jenkins server before. It's just complexity that doesn't really have much to do with the business beyond getting our software to our customers. My … Incentivized Helpful? Yasmany Cubela Medina Scrum Master And Development Team Lead in Information Technology at iLike IT Solutions (Sports, 11-50 employees) Chose CircleCI Since CircleCI gave us its infrastructure we don't have to worry about servers, provisioning and maintenance. Also CircleCI provides us great features to increase speed of builds by adding more containers to the build. Jenkins is the best open source alternative but it requires … 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? Verified User Chose CircleCI CircleCI is still being developed and worked on continually while TravisCI is not. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CircleCI CircleCI seemed to have a quicker setup than other similar products, with a good integration with GitHub repos. Projects are quick and easy to set up within the UI, and workflows can then be created off the back of those fairly intuitively. Clever interpretation of commit … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CircleCI CircleCI is the company that is innovating compared to the other ones. I think it's a great piece of software compared to other open source options that don't have as much functionality and improved capability over time. 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? 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?	Open Source Verified User Chose Jenkins When looking for alternatives for Jenkins we found CircleCI and TeamCity are good too. Jenkins was considered for reasons like it has a wide variety of plugins which integrate well with any kind of system. And its ease of use. One of the other greater advantage is it is open … Incentivized Helpful? Sagiv Frankel Freelance Web Developer in Engineering at Seebo (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Jenkins I had experienced some outages and bugs with CircleCI which can be very frustrating since you don't have control over the software. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member in Engineering at Jombay (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Jenkins Didn't really check other tools in detail since Jenkins served all our requirements and has been hugely popular. Incentivized Helpful? Richard Rout Software Developer in Information Technology at Finmo (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Jenkins Originally Jenkins was selected because it was the best around, but it has since been outclassed by more specific services or cloud-based services and tools that will do all of the heavy lifting for you. Jenkins still has a use case - but it's hard to argue the additional … Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Rocketrip (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Jenkins Jenkins has been my favorite continuous integration tool I've used. It's easy to setup, intuitive to use, and very powerful. The software allows for building complex workflows, then having them run without thinking about it. This leads to savings in time and resources, and to … Incentivized Helpful? Aiman Najjar DevOps Principal Architect in Information Technology at Pythian (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Jenkins Jenkins immense flexibility and its large and impressive selection of available community-driven plugins makes it ideal choice for solving non-traditional problems. However, for CI/CD - consider the benefit of modern tools that enforce reusable, infrastructure as code design … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Quint Lead AWS Systems Architect in Information Technology at Turing Group (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Jenkins Jenkins does a much better job of working with interpreted languages, and has a much larger plugin base. Incentivized Helpful? Yasmany Cubela Medina Development Team Lead in Information Technology at SPEERIT: The Ultimate Running Experience (Sports, 11-50 employees) Chose Jenkins Basically all those CI/CD tools provides the same set of tooling. SaaS solutions have a pre set pool of languages and containers you can use, but hey also are less flexible because they will not allow you to do advance configurations or setups you may need. With jenkins you have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Jenkins Unfortunately I can't weight on decision making points since selection of Jenkins was made prior to me joining the company. Incentivized Helpful? Ken Yee Android Architect in Engineering at KAYAK (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Jenkins I've used these others as well: TeamCity - has master slave concept but master is also not load balance-able like Jenkins. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	CircleCI	Jenkins
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (26 ratings)	7.5 (72 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	7.9 (6 ratings)
Performance	7.8 (3 ratings)	8.9 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	6.9 (6 ratings)	6.6 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)