# CircleCI Reviews **Vendor:** CircleCI **Category:** [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-integration) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 509 ## About CircleCI CircleCI is the worlds largest shared continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the central hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools that processes more than 1 million builds a day, CircleCI has unique access to data on how engineering teams work, and how their code runs. Companies like Spotify, Coinbase, Stitch Fix, and BuzzFeed use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster. ## CircleCI Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **easy integrations** with CircleCI, praising its speed and user-friendly setup process. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **great integrations** of CircleCI, praising its ease of use and solid feature set. (4 reviews) - Users value the **seamless collaboration** with GitHub and GitLab, enhancing team workflows and efficiency in CI/CD processes. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of CircleCI, enjoying simple integration and fast performance. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **speed and flexibility** of CircleCI, benefiting from seamless automation and user-friendly design. (2 reviews) - Easy Setup (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **speed, flexibility, and user-friendly interface** of CircleCI, enhancing their continuous integration process. (2 reviews) - Git Integration (2 reviews) - Integration Capabilities (2 reviews) - Testing Automation (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complex configuration** daunting for beginners, affecting usability and understanding of advanced features. (2 reviews) - Users find the **difficult configuration** challenging, especially for beginners, which can hinder effective use of CircleCI. (2 reviews) - Users find CircleCI **expensive** if compilations aren't optimized, and the pricing page can be confusing and unintuitive. (2 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , making it challenging for beginners to navigate CI/CD and YAML configuration. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex configuration** of CircleCI challenging for beginners, making it difficult to utilize advanced features. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complex management** of CircleCI difficult for beginners, especially when dealing with advanced features. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complex templating** of CircleCI challenging, particularly for beginners navigating advanced features. (1 reviews) - Users find the **interface confusing** , making it difficult to navigate and use effectively for reports. (1 reviews) - Integration Issues (1 reviews) - Limited Flexibility (1 reviews) ## CircleCI Reviews ### 1. Just because it works, doesn't mean there isn't another way to do it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raul A. | Python Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2023 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It is really simple to use, integrate with other technologies, and has great documentation to follow. Someone coming from the DevOps/Sysadmin role, with a little knowledge can easily connect the dots on what CircleCI offers. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The docker layer cache and IP ranges seem to be a bit too expensive for usage. I'm not saying it doesn't work actually, it does, but the price is kinda expensive **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to have an old implementation with other technology(Jenkins). It worked fine. The issue is that the process was a little slow, and not totally integrated with the repository. ### 2. Easy Setup and Broad Options Support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2026 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Ease of setup, wide support for many options **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Speed I want my builds faster! A few issues with concurrent test runners not working. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** One place to do our builds, good to write the build system into the code. ### 3. Intuitive, Easy, and Effective for CI/CD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis Patricio R. | Senior Backend Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2025 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I like that CircleCI is easy to use, easy to understand, and I can get to what I need clearly. It is intuitive, with icons and colors that offer a good user experience to achieve what the user wants to do. The initial setup was quite simple, and I have been able to do it alone several times. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Everything perfect, no problem **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use CircleCI to automate CI/CD processes. It is easy to use, understand, and intuitive, offering a good experience with icons and colors that make it easy to access what I need. ### 4. Minimal, Clean UI That’s Easy to Understand **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saroj P. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2026 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The UI is minimal and clean to understand well. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** We could certainly include more complex ci templates. that'd help. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We no longer have to self host jenkins and have a realiable ci provider worry about it for us. ### 5. CircleCI with GitHub offers powerful CI/CD automation with excellent Git integration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruval K. | Senier Javascript Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2025 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI integrates seamlessly with GitHub, making it easy to trigger builds on commits and pull requests. It offers a highly configurable pipeline setup using YAML, supports Docker natively, and allows for parallel job execution to speed up testing. The free tier is generous enough for small to mid-size projects, and built-in caching and performance dashboards help optimize build times and monitor efficiency. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** However, the learning curve can be steep for those new to CI/CD or YAML configuration. Resource limits in the free plan can be restrictive for larger teams or complex workflows. Job startup times can occasionally be slow, the UI sometimes lags under load, and advanced features like Docker layer caching are locked behind paid tiers. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automatically triggers builds on every push or pull request. ### 6. Fast, User-Friendly, but Keep an Eye on Costs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Warit C. | Full-Stack Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2025 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I find CircleCI easy to use and integrate. The servers are pretty fast, which is a major plus. The initial setup was simple, and it just works. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** It may be not that cheap if your compilation is not optimized enough. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use CircleCI for compiling, testing, and deploying applications on the server. It's easy to use and integrates well, with faster servers than GitHub Actions. ### 7. It is a great platform to coordinate your CI/CD **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego P. | VP of Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2024 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It is really easy to integrate with GitHub and Gitlab. On the other hand I really like that my team can easily take advantage of the platform to understand the problems that may occur with the pipelines, is really easy to identify the problem by checking logs and identify the step that is failing. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The pricing page is a little bit confusing for me. But maybe this is just me because I'm not using this section very regularly, however when i enter I always forgot how to do the report I need and the UI is not very intuitive **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have the CI/CD pipelines inside CircleCI for the 2 main products in the company. A mobile application and the backend API that is used by all the clients inside our system. The benefit of having the pipelines here is that engineers can easily understand problems with deployments without the help from the DevOps team. They can easily understand the issues and fixing by themselves most of the cases ### 8. Very very good tool easy to login from github **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parag B. | SDR, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2025 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Very very good tool easy to login from github **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Nothing as of now. Looking forward for more **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very very good tool easy to login from github. But as of now no problem ### 9. Solid Tool for easy CI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex M. | Principal Software Engineer, Health, Wellness and Fitness, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2025 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Integrations are great. Configuration was easy and has a solid number of features. We use this in our CI for a handful of apps and it's very easy to use. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Wish it had better integrations for mobile apps (android / iOS) alternatives have easy integrations into those developer platforms to pull certificates etc. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not running deploys locally. Centralization of environment variables ### 10. my experience using CircleCI is the best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kenneth joy m. | developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2025 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** what i like the best about CicleCI is its speed and flexibility, and automation of testing and user friendly interface. and easy to implement and its easy to approach the customer support **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** i think one of the downsideof circleCI is the complex of configuration for newbie or begginners, especially with advance feature **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** one of the problem that circleCI solve is manual, thanks to CircleCI we now automate on testing our software and automate fo find error, so now we can fix it early, its reduce our time on working, and improve the team productivity ## CircleCI Discussions - [What is CircleCI used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-circleci-used-for) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Where can I found documentation or examples about integration with different programming languages](https://www.g2.com/discussions/where-can-i-found-documentation-or-examples-about-integration-with-different-programming-languages) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What's the best way to view my jobs on a mobile application for Android?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/15983-what-s-the-best-way-to-view-my-jobs-on-a-mobile-application-for-android) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Do you offer an on-premise version of your software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/getting-started-afea13c4-02da-420b-9bbe-1f26f8a9e305) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can I change my plan at a later time? Can I cancel anytime?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/getting-started-0a9fc8e0-0026-493c-a3e1-f9b18abbe187) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View CircleCI pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/circleci/reviews/circleci-review-3185534?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-03+02%3A17%3A09+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=85210c30-d310-40a2-a0b3-fe67e5ffbe66&secure%5Btoken%5D=9a5175b16aa67764b6ee7a6c1a7f29049f7e1fd9ecf1bab587de4bccb58e4223&format=llm_user) ## CircleCI Integrations - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) ## CircleCI Features **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Management** - Configuration Management - Access Control - Orchestration **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Functionality** - Automation - Integrations - Extensibility **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Processes** - Pipeline Control - Workflow Visualization - Continuous Deployment **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top CircleCI Alternatives - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,292 reviews) - [CloudBees](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudbees/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (591 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (552 reviews)