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Compare Buddy and CircleCI 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Small-Business (82.8% of reviews)
Small-Business (45.7% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Free
$0.00 Per Month
Buddy
Star Rating
(209)4.7 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (82.8% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free
Browse all 5 pricing plansCircleCI
Star Rating
(508)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (45.7% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$0.00 Per Month
Browse all 4 pricing plansBuddy vs CircleCI
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Buddy easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Buddy overall.
- Reviewers felt that Buddy meets the needs of their business better than CircleCI.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Buddy is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Buddy over CircleCI.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Buddy
Free
Free
For freelancers and sporadic deployments.
- 1 seat
- 1 runner
- 300 pipeline GB-minutes
CircleCI
FREE
$0.00
Per Month
Do more with your minutes.
- Up to 6,000 build minutes per month
- Largest selection: Build for Docker, Windows, Linux, Arm, and macOS or on your own compute with self-hosted runners
- Build better: Choose the right resource class size (S–L) to go fast and maximize your build minutes
Free Trial
Buddy
Free Trial is available
CircleCI
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.4
157
8.8
444
Ease of Use
9.5
157
8.5
446
Ease of Setup
9.2
81
8.4
169
Ease of Admin
9.2
75
8.3
163
Quality of Support
8.9
114
8.2
321
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.3
62
8.6
134
Product Direction (% positive)
9.2
149
7.9
441
Features by Category
Functionality
9.6
51
8.7
54
9.4
51
8.5
59
9.1
47
8.1
51
Management
9.5
48
8.5
60
8.6
45
7.7
47
9.6
50
8.7
59
Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
9.4
22
8.9
19
9.4
19
9.0
20
9.5
20
8.7
19
Functionality
9.6
23
9.0
23
9.5
20
9.0
23
9.5
19
8.8
20
Processes
9.4
22
8.8
23
9.5
20
8.9
22
9.6
22
9.1
22
Functionality
9.3
45
|
Verified
8.7
77
|
Verified
9.0
43
|
Verified
8.3
63
|
Verified
9.2
39
|
Verified
8.2
67
|
Verified
Management
9.4
43
|
Verified
8.8
72
|
Verified
9.5
42
|
Verified
8.6
77
|
Verified
8.6
39
|
Verified
7.8
61
|
Verified
Agentic AI - Continuous Integration
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Buddy and CircleCI are categorized as Continuous Integration, DevOps Platforms, and Continuous Delivery
Unique Categories
Buddy is categorized as Version Control Hosting
CircleCI is categorized as Build Automation
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Buddy
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
CircleCI
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software
35.6%
Information Technology and Services
9.8%
Marketing and Advertising
7.3%
Program Development
6.8%
Internet
5.4%
Other
35.1%
Computer Software
26.5%
Information Technology and Services
17.6%
Internet
10.1%
Financial Services
4.4%
Marketing and Advertising
3.2%
Other
38.2%
Alternatives
Discussions
Buddy has no discussions with answers
How do I get started?
1 Comment
Official Response from CircleCI
Linux plans start with the ability to run one build simultaneously without parallelism at no charge. Open source projects get 3 additional free containers,...Read more
What is concurrency? What is parallelism?
1 Comment
Official Response from CircleCI
Concurrency refers to utilizing multiple containers to run multiple builds at the same time. Otherwise, if you don't have enough free containers available,...Read more
How do containers work?
1 Comment
Official Response from CircleCI
Every time you push to your VCS system, we checkout your code and run your build inside of a fresh, on-demand, and isolated Linux container pre-loaded with...Read more
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