Compare CircleCI and Pantheon 
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At a Glance
Market Segments
Small-Business (45.7% of reviews)
Small-Business (62.4% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0.00 Per Month
$41 per month (prepaid annually)
CircleCI
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 plansPantheon
Star Rating
(724)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (62.4% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$41 per month (prepaid annually)
Browse all 3 pricing plansCircleCI vs Pantheon
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Pantheon easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Pantheon overall.
- CircleCI and Pantheon both meet the requirements of our reviewers at a comparable rate.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Pantheon is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Pantheon over CircleCI.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
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
Pantheon
BASIC PLAN
$41
per month (prepaid annually)
Hosting for local businesses, small blogs, and static sites.
Start with our Basic Plan and scale up in plan easily as your site needs grow.
- 25k Monthly Visits
- 125k Monthly Pages Served
- 20GB SSD Storage
Free Trial
CircleCI
Free Trial is available
Pantheon
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.8
444
8.8
498
Ease of Use
8.5
446
8.8
500
Ease of Setup
8.4
169
8.7
391
Ease of Admin
8.3
163
8.7
387
Quality of Support
8.2
321
8.7
475
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.6
134
8.8
372
Product Direction (% positive)
7.9
441
8.2
481
Features by Category
Content
Not enough data
9.1
119
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
114
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.2
135
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
127
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.0
112
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
106
Not enough data
8.9
116
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.6
108
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.1
115
|
Verified
Design
Not enough data
8.3
83
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
83
Not enough data
8.4
81
Not enough data
8.9
93
Platform
Not enough data
8.9
121
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
108
Not enough data
8.9
109
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.0
133
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.2
137
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
96
Not enough data
8.8
140
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
124
|
Verified
Agentic AI - Web Content Management
Not enough data
7.0
5
Not enough data
7.0
5
Functionality
8.7
54
Not enough data
8.5
59
Not enough data
8.1
51
Not enough data
Management
8.5
60
Not enough data
7.7
47
Not enough data
8.7
59
Not enough data
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
Functionality
Not enough data
9.5
103
Not enough data
9.2
92
Not enough data
9.8
104
Management
Not enough data
9.1
88
Not enough data
9.6
108
Not enough data
9.1
99
Support
Not enough data
8.5
90
Not enough data
8.8
90
Not enough data
9.3
89
Management
8.9
19
Not enough data
9.0
20
Not enough data
8.7
19
Not enough data
Functionality
9.0
23
Not enough data
9.0
23
Not enough data
8.8
20
Not enough data
Processes
8.8
23
Not enough data
8.9
22
Not enough data
9.1
22
Not enough data
Functionality
8.7
77
|
Verified
8.8
62
|
Verified
8.3
63
|
Verified
8.7
61
|
Verified
8.2
67
|
Verified
8.8
60
|
Verified
Management
8.8
72
|
Verified
8.5
65
|
Verified
8.6
77
|
Verified
9.1
70
|
Verified
7.8
61
|
Verified
8.1
65
|
Verified
Agentic AI - Continuous Integration
Not enough data
6.0
7
Not enough data
7.1
7
Not enough data
4.5
7
Not enough data
4.0
7
Not enough data
4.5
7
Performance
Not enough data
8.5
19
Not enough data
8.3
20
Not enough data
8.3
21
Not enough data
8.3
20
Not enough data
7.6
18
Security
Not enough data
8.9
19
Not enough data
7.7
19
Not enough data
7.7
16
Not enough data
8.0
17
Free Resources
Not enough data
5.9
16
Not enough data
6.0
17
Not enough data
8.1
18
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
CircleCI and Pantheon are categorized as Continuous Integration
Unique Categories
Pantheon is categorized as WebOps Platforms, Web Content Management, Managed Hosting, and WordPress Hosting
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
CircleCI
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Pantheon
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
26.5%
Information Technology and Services
17.6%
Internet
10.1%
Financial Services
4.4%
Marketing and Advertising
3.2%
Other
38.2%
Marketing and Advertising
15.6%
Information Technology and Services
14.9%
Internet
10.9%
Computer Software
10.6%
Higher Education
5.6%
Other
42.4%
Alternatives
Discussions
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
Is Pantheon considering offering price tiers for nonprofit/education organizations?
3 Comments
NC
As Ian said, it doesn't hurt to ask, but nothing has been announced publicly ( https://pantheon.io/industry-solutions/nonprofit ).
One way to save some...Read more
Any chance of allowing a Backup (on any Environment) to be easily used to spin up a MultiDev instance? It would be SO AWESOME to click a button and resurrect a 3day old backup on a new Environment and log into it and look around. :-)
2 Comments
DG
Doug.
Spin up the Multidev as you normally would, and then you can import your backup database to the environment via the database connection info pantheon...Read more
Can I host multiple URLs on one plan?
1 Comment
Official Response from Pantheon
Each plan hosts one domain and any subdomains. Read more
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