--- title: Buddy Reviews meta_title: 'Buddy Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 211 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Buddy works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 211 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # Buddy Reviews **Vendor:** Buddy **Category:** [Continuous Delivery Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-delivery-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 211 ## About Buddy Get back your time with Buddy’s delivery pipelines that eliminate repeatable tasks in your daily development. Automatically build & ship web projects on a single git push, on click, or recurrently. Easily define your own delivery process just like you build a house of bricks: from builds and tests, to deployments, custom scripts, and website monitoring. Bring the newest tech to your team’s stack with native Docker support: containers, microservices, Kubernetes deployments, and more. ## Buddy Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users highlight the **ease of use** of Buddy, allowing setup of pipelines without prior CI/CD skills. (3 reviews) - Users value the **intuitive and easy-to-use pipeline management** of Buddy, enabling seamless deployment without extensive skills. (3 reviews) - Users praise Buddy for its **easy deployment process** , allowing seamless environment setup in just a few clicks. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **clean and intuitive interface** of Buddy, making setup simple even without CI/CD skills. (2 reviews) - Users love the **intuitive automation** features of Buddy, making deployment workflows easy and accessible for everyone. (1 reviews) - Automation Efficiency (1 reviews) - Automation Testing (1 reviews) - Deployment Automation (1 reviews) - Deployment Ease (1 reviews) - Ease of Implementation (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Buddy to be **expensive** , especially due to limiting build minutes and concurrencies for the free tier. (2 reviews) - Users note the **limited features** of Buddy's free tier, making it challenging for budget-conscious projects. (2 reviews) - Users note that the **limited free access** of Buddy restricts build minutes and concurrency, hindering new users. (2 reviews) - Users note **pricing issues** with Buddy's free tier, which limits build minutes and concurrencies for new users. (2 reviews) - Users find the **limiting build minutes and concurrencies** of Buddy's free tier a challenge for beginners and hobbyists. (1 reviews) - Users find the documentation useful but desire **more guidance for inexperienced users** in setting up CI/CD pipelines. (1 reviews) - Limited Functionality (1 reviews) - Users find the **documentation lacking detail** , wishing for more best practices and examples for less experienced teams. (1 reviews) - Users find that while Buddy's documentation is helpful, there is a lack of **guidance for beginners** in setting up pipelines. (1 reviews) ## Buddy Reviews ### 1. Autodeploy FTW **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Automatic deployment to production servers on push to repo. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Push triggering sometimes gets stuck, and have to refresh repo. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logging into servers to pull repos. ### 2. Best CI/CD for the cloud integration. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sumith t. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy got the best UI among this category of system. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Buddy should improve the error reporting and help tutorial. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated system deployment. Its fully automated with every push to GIT and its so reliable. ### 3. Easy using **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Simplifies the delivery process, editing the pipeline doesn't require knowledge of xlm (it's done right on the web interface), intuitive UI that's easy for anyone to use **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Can sometimes be too simple. I've been told by collegues that the look of it puts them off (not sure why) **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use buddy as a delivery pipeline. Very easy to deploy our project onto different envs and such. ### 4. Amazing CI experience! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Buddy?** It's incredibly easy to configure, has a beautiful design and UX that's very easy to understand. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Not much to dislike; if anything simply the memory limits which are hit pretty quickly with JavaScript build tools **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buddy has helped us with continuous integration and deployment. We're able to run tests automatically with every push to any branch. We can deploy to our staging server automatically when pushed to our staging branch. We can ensure that the environment, library versions, etc. are the same locally as they are on our live server. It's an incredibly flexible and powerful service and one of the few services that I think is worth paying for vs. building yourself. ### 5. Great tool, easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** The simplicty in which you can build workflows **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Nothing really, maybe the free tier could be more generous as running it with docker the storage size is easily full **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick deployments to production, without touching anything ### 6. It works very well **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I like how easy it is to use! Pipelines are easy to create and use. And it is very easy to connect to github. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** I have been using Buddy for over a year and really have no complaints. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployments and testing ### 7. Great CI, Self-hosted, Doesn't break the bank **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** George W. | Senior Business Process Architect, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I love the fact that we are able to use buddy enterprise to self-host our CI server, we develop a lot of in host web applications and some are as simple as ftping files over to update the site, while others require us to deploy node apps buddy make all of this possible under a single pane of glass **What do you dislike about Buddy?** my only real complaint with buddy is their documentation is lacking both from setup guides to change logs for updates. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** Its so far the only CI system that does what I need and was easy to setup 1-3 hr total setup time. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating software deployments to various endpoints from github has been a HUGE timesaver as well as allowing us to keep our code in a central repo. ### 8. Buddy.works just works! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Super clear and easy to find what we need. The easy to manage step system helps a lot! **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Sometimes it struggles with setting up configurations with Pantheon, but once you figure that out it really does make sense. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were having different deployment processes for all of our Wordpress projects and it was getting unruly. So Buddy really helped us get a set system of steps for an easy to use continuous deployment pipeline for Wordpress projects. ### 9. East to Configure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin H. | Director of Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Buddy?** How easy it is to set up and deploy an application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Number of concurrent jobs you can do is based on the plan **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes zipping and deploying to AWS so much easier. It's faster than our in-house solutions and cheaper to run. ### 10. Best CI/CD that I've used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas W. | Director of Development, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Buddy?** UX - Hands down the best UX, I've had on any CI/CD tool. Status and progress are very clear, so there's never a question about what's happening and you don't have to read through a wall of text before you're able to identify issues. Setting up your workflow aka "pipeline" is a very easy process, which is crucial because it's the crux of the whole system. UI - Modern and sleek, clearly subjective, however, the tool itself is not a cookie cutter design and there was a lot of thought put into the aesthetic, which definitely separates it from other tools within the same space. Flexibility - One of the issues with other GUI driven CI/CD tools we've experienced is it's lack of flexibility, however, Buddy doesn't have those same limitations. Comes with pretty much everything you expect and/or want from any CI/CD tool. Automation, notifications, cloning, Rsync (clutch), variables (seemingly simple, but also clutch), SSH, 3rd party connections, "CRON" jobs, etc. the list goes on. All done without being forced to write a single config. file. Speed - One the fastest, if not the fastest deployment tools we've used. Sandboxes ... yea ... sandboxes **What do you dislike about Buddy?** If you're doing the self-hosted "Enterprise" version, updating is not horrible, but it is kinda clunky. There's a way to update through the GUI, however, more often than not, it still forces you to SSH into your server to update a package. Every now and again, when there's a change, it's not as well documented as it could've been. Without being too long-winded, Buddy 2.0 forced a key change for all projects, w/o detailing that it was a required update. Having to update a lot of projects with new keys was a bear. Pricing. Now granted, the pricing model is on par with other services, and that's fine., and this just recently (1.x => 2.0) changed. But you previously were able to have a working free version, which is no longer available, which is to the detriment of freelancers. If you were grandfathered in or want to stay with version 1.0, that's all good, but you don't get all the 2.0 goodies. Support response times, a bit longer, but that's only really due to the fact that we're on opposite sides of the globe, but if you're based in the US, keep that in mind. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a reliable CI/CD tool, that we could keep under lock-and-key on our own servers, that had all the flexibility of all the other major players in this space. This provides us with unprecedented speed, simplicity, and flexibility that just works, without any real compromise. ### 11. Getting started is easy and Great Customer Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I have been using this for a couple of months and have really enjoyed playing with it. Getting started was a snap and the overall selection of plugins and out of the box features made this one of my favorite products I have used in a long time. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Nothing, I really think they nailed the UI and features. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is one of our first ventures into DevOps, we are starting to work on getting more and more deployments automated and this tool made it easy. - [View Buddy pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/buddy/reviews?page=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-31+18%3A12%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=278a2765-90ff-466d-b3e3-323b6372dc4b&secure%5Btoken%5D=31ac85d59e12afd82eadc9491968b1c5e6a22d5d9c9f5d1480d1d0ad9e1fb045&format=llm_user) ## Buddy Integrations - [Git](https://www.g2.com/products/git/reviews) - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - [Slack](https://www.g2.com/products/slack/reviews) ## Buddy 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 Buddy Alternatives - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (884 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (558 reviews) - [CircleCI](https://www.g2.com/products/circleci/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (501 reviews)