Octopus Deploy vs. Visual Studio App Center
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Octopus Deploy | Score10 out of 10 | Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees) | Australian company Octopus Deploy offers their eponymous automated deployment and release management software that integrates with the user's preferred CI server and adds deployment & ops automation capabilities. Octopus Deploy enables developers, release managers, and operations folks to bring all automation into a single place. The vendor states that by reusing configuration variables, environment definition, API keys, connection strings, permissions, service principals, and automation logic,… | $12 per month |
 Visual Studio App Center | Score6.9 out of 10 | N/A | Visual Studio App Center, or just App Center available from Microsoft's Azure, is a solution used to build, test, release, and monitor mobile and desktop apps. When creating apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows, App Center allows users to automate build, test, and distribution pipelines, as well as continuously monitor real-time performance. | $40 per month per build concurrency |
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| Additional Details | Octopus Server edition is available as a 30 day free trial on our unlimited tier for any scenario, including production, and commercial use. After the trial period ends you can keep your working configuration and upgrade to a paid license and continue deploying uninterrupted. Octopus Cloud is an alternative that is hosted by us, and is also available as a 30 day unlimited trial. No credit card is needed to create a Octopus Cloud trial instance. You can convert the Cloud trial to a paid instance at any time during or after the trial period, and keep all of your instance configuration. Octopus also offers an Enterprise tier which offers advanced features for teams at scale including, advanced high availability, insights & DORA metrics, ServiceNow & Jira Service Management integration, unlimited instances, 24/7 support & service credits, and a Customer Success Manager. Volume discounts are available above 500 targets, and temporary bursting for certain scenarios is supported. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.6 | 8.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 8.0 | - |
| Usability | 8.4 | - |
| Performance | 8.5 | - |
| Support Rating | 8.2 | - |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | 8.5 | - |
| Ease of integration | 8.5 | - |
| Professional Services | 9.1 | - |