GitHub vs. Jenkins

GitHub

1,099 Reviews and Ratings

Jenkins

474 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
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

GitHub

Jenkins

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

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Pricing Offerings
GitHub	Jenkins
Free Trial
Yes	No
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
	GitHub	Jenkins
Considered Both Products	GitHub Hugo Romani Cortes Atos - Middleware Architect in Engineering at Amadeus IT Group (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees) Chose GitHub Microsoft Team Foundation Server was too heavy and too complex for fast dvelopment. The integration with opensource build solutions (i.e jenkins) was not explored but the main feedback on this tool was its complexity. CVS and SVN used to be standards in past years and fit … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub Gitlab is something that I would investigate more if I need an on-site solution. Bitbucket has a terrible UX like most Atlassian products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub So the far the best UI representation of code which helps the team co-ordinate easier. Easy to explore other projects in an organization and also view a developers performance and history of code writtern in a year. An issue that can be created as part of the GitHub Repo instead … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub Bitbucket supports Mercurial VCS in addition to Git. Since it is an Atlassian product, Bitbucket is very well integrated with the company's other tools, like JIRA (which is widely used in the development industry), Jenkins, and Bamboo. It offers many of the same features as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub An integrated issue tracker right within your project. Milestones and labels within projects. Branch comparison views Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub Github is far superior to Svn source control. The speed is a big plus for large projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub Bitbucket has an interface that is much uglier and much more confusing to use. The learning curve is therefore much greater with Bitbucket. However, Bitbucket allows for free private repositories for small teams, which is a huge plus, and if your team is small enough, that … Incentivized Helpful?	Open Source Verified User Chose Jenkins GitLab CI and GitHub Actions are other powerful options in the market also with a rising popularity and high interoperability with their respective platform. But Jenkins is still a good option for complex pipelines that require scripting and logic. Also, Jenkins uses as runtime … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Jenkins Jenkins is highly customizable and flexible, supporting a wide range of plugins and integrations. Jenkins works with any version control system (Git, Subversion, etc.). Jenkins has a more mature ecosystem, and it may be better for large-scale, complex environments, especially … Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Arsalan Niazi Sr. Lead Devops Engineer in Information Technology at Nisum (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Jenkins I have used Spinnaker as a CD tool. Though it's a very powerful CD tool we still needed Jenkins for CI, so to save some hassle for us we opt Jenkins solely. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Jenkins It's mostly stable and well-known within the DevOps community. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Mintz CEO in Professional Services at EM Squared (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Jenkins Both Jenkins and TeamCity do a good job of automating CI/CD. Jenkins runs much leaner than TeamCity - it only needs about a Gig of free memory, whereas TeamCity needs a fat 4 Gig free. Many tasks in Jenkins yml config can be very cumbersome, especially running local and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Jenkins Jenkins is the only solution that we've tried that just automatically generates builds. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Jenkins I don't have any experience with alternatives to Jenkins. 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? 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? Kevin Van Heusen Software Architect in Engineering at SpringAhead (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Jenkins TeamCity is another viable option for Continuous Integration/Development. We picked Jenkins in this case because there was a lot of support for Amazon CloudFormation and other AWS integrations which fit the task at hand. For just straight compiling Microsoft based builds, TeamCi… 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? Jonathan Yu Software Engineer - OpenShift in Engineering at Red Hat (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Jenkins Travis CI and AppVeyor are good services that provide rudimentary support for builds, but they focus on Linux/OSX and Windows respectively, meaning that cross-platform builds will need to use both services. They are free for open source projects on GitHub, so they are seen … Incentivized Helpful? Mohit Goenka Senior Engineering Manager in Engineering at Yahoo! Inc. (Internet, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Jenkins Jenkins provides bare metal framework that people would be able to use and transform to their needs. In a lot of other cases, there are lot of configurations already available which make the softwares heavy ended and less customizable. Also, there are a lot of open source … Incentivized Helpful? Maxim Milovanov Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at EPAM Systems (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Jenkins Jenkins is ideal for developing software with high-security demands. It is hosted and set up locally and has no outside connections. But these pros could become cons when you work on open source projects and need to waste time for initial setup and maintenance over a project's … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Jenkins I have not evaluated any other solutions as I was just a user. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

GitHub

Jenkins

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

User Ratings
	GitHub	Jenkins
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (123 ratings)	7.5 (72 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (2 ratings)	7.9 (6 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.9 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (26 ratings)	6.6 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)