--- title: CircleCI Reviews meta_title: 'CircleCI Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 511 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CircleCI works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 511 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-27' parent_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # CircleCI Reviews **Vendor:** CircleCI **Category:** [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-integration) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 511 ## 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 GitHub and GitLab, enhancing their development workflow seamlessly. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy integrations** with GitHub and GitLab, enhancing their workflow efficiency and collaboration. (4 reviews) - Users value the **seamless collaboration** with GitHub and GitLab, enhancing team efficiency and problem-solving. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of CircleCI, noting simple integration and quick setup with reliable performance. (3 reviews) - Users value the **automation capabilities** of CircleCI, enhancing speed and flexibility in their development workflows. (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** challenging, especially beginners struggling with advanced features and an unintuitive UI. (2 reviews) - Users find the **difficult configuration** challenging, particularly for beginners navigating CI/CD and advanced features. (2 reviews) - Users find CircleCI **expensive** , especially if compilation is not optimized, with a confusing pricing page. (2 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , particularly for beginners dealing with CI/CD and YAML configurations. (2 reviews) - Users find CircleCI's **complex configuration** challenging for beginners, hindering their learning and initial experience. (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. Great tool, easy to work with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rupank P. | Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Seems less integration, and quick workflow. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Some times test execution is inconsitant. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving fast and getting fast feedback ### 2. Circle ci is the sliced bread of cicd pipelining **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Intuitive ui and notifications make it sweet. Having the ability to set env variables in different scopes is really great as well. Coding the config for ci is super simple and linking with docker images. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Relying on cloud infra to keep our jobs running. I understand there is an SLA, but there have been many times where jobs fail, we troubleshoot only to find cci went down and didn't alert us until after the fact. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Entire builds get tested and deployed thru circle ci. When we have new schema changes and updates the pipeline automatically updates the db. Performance has increased and cci is now the new norm. ### 3. CircleCI is great for monitoring automated processes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI has a lot of great integrations with developer tools and an easy-to-use interface. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes it can get a little difficult to find the information you need to fix a broken automation. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using CircleCI to automate our development builds and testing pipeline. ### 4. CircleCI is very powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** can test both windows and macOS application **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** taking for so long, and it doesn't have a good solution for the errors **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** reduce QA time, and help developers to identify issues of environment from both windows, macOS, and Linux ### 5. Very good app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The email notification when something fail. The trace of the errors in the page. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes the app is very slow. And maybe the layout could be nicer **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the integration to github and the email notification when something went wrong. ### 6. CIrcleCI made my Test Automation Execution hassle-free **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Showing the Failed Test cases is brilliant. Rather than showing the logs, CircleCI shows the failed test cases much more graphically. We can also configure the artifacts to be saved and can be viewed from CircleCI itself. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** There is nothing to complain about. But since there are some CI tools out there in the market which support the Plugings, it will be greater if CircleCI also provided wide range of plugins. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test execution is really easy with webhooks. Complared to other CI tools, CircleCI shows the execution branch and which pipeline and many. Also we can filter by the Pipeline/Project, branch. Those features made my test execution really easy. ### 7. Saved a lot of time and Induced a lot of discipline into team. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** 1. Approval Mechanism 2. Easy to use UX 3. Alerts and Notification system **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** 1. UI can be better 2. Analytics can be added **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Reduced time in spending on deployments 2. Induced a lot of discipline ### 8. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI is effective and easy to use for continuous integration **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes it is a bit slow but that cannot always be avoided **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** CircleCI helps solve problems regarding continuous integration and testing code before deployment! ### 9. Circle CI is good, but needs improvements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** portal is the best feature, the UI really helps get things clear **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** triggers for files need two workflows and orb usage **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** automation for CI/CD, benefits us with faster deliverable for product led growth ### 10. How CircleCI monitoring system benefits us on our daily work **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Monitoring features of it is the best among other platofrms **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** It is separated from github and github is running their own solution **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running the ci/cd procedure with a beautiful UI ### 11. Much better than github CI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in International Trade and Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Ability to properly manage artifacts and multiple build steps **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Long build times due to requirements of docker images **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continous integration, necessary thing for team development. ### 12. good jenkins replacement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** - parallel pipeline execution - ease of configuration **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** - difficult to identify results among the various builds **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** code deployment - easy integration with terraform ### 13. meh **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The container-based approach makes things easy, and the ability to SSH to the workers is a must. There's a lot of documentation and example available, making most setups pretty simple. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** missing ends points, overly aggressive permission policies **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** have a look at github actions too **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated testing and packaging are big and are now way more accessible to everyone in the team. ### 14. Circle CI is the most flexible CICD platform by far **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Regardless of your needs, you can find a way to configure your pipeline to meet those needs. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The reliability and uptime isn't 100%. Circle CI relies on a number of other services (GitHub, AWS, Docker Hub, Atlassian, GCP) so when those services are disrupted, Circle CI is as well. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast, easy, well tested, builds and deployments. ### 15. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I found it very easy to set up and it has been easy to make any changes when needed. The doc support is great and we have not found any feature gaps that have caused an issue for us **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The reliability could be improved. I honestly don't have much to compare to, but I would say probably about once a quarter, there is some sort of issue that blocks us temporarily. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use circle for deployment. Honestly it was already in use when I joined the company so I am not sure how things were before, but it does make things easy for new employees ### 16. Circle CI is a complete CI tool and exceptionally well. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh G. | Senior iOS Developer (Remote), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I particularly like the automated workflows and on top of it, integration with third party apps like slack. It is easy to use and learn. Widely accepted so large community support available. You don't need to resolve dependencies unlike other simillar platforms. It is lightweight and have robust cloud servers. Quick setup. Debugging is easy. It has built-in assistance for Docker in the workflow. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** CircleCI offers a limited setting for encrypted files and maximum data on CircleCI is available for developers to access. Cost per user is high. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** I would simply say 'Go for it, give it a try and you won't look back for anything else for you CI/build processes'. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to solve our Continues Integration, testing and releases with the help of CircleCI. Having automated releases is the most beneficial thing for us. ### 17. Great for Standardizing App Deployment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric R. | Front End Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It makes repeated processes a lot easier to manage. I don't have to remember to run specs every time I create a PR, and I can deploy our application to any environment with a simple merge in GitHub. I love how I can see that our specs passed on my PR right from GitHub, and then click through to directly see any failed specs. From there, I can select it to rerun the specs, which is also super handy as, sometimes, a random spec will fail. When reviewing, this makes it nice for the whole team to ensure our code isn't going to break anything unintentionally. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The new UI took a little bit to get used to. There was a lot of change, but after a week, I really appreciated the new designs and layouts. It is a bit confusing to first get around, but our DevOps engineer gave us some tutorials and that really helped. Now I'm really comfortable clicking around inside the CircleCI interface. I am unfamiliar with how to create workflows in CircleCI, but I don't think it's terribly difficult. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Give it a try. It can save you a lot of time. We used to build and deploy our Angular app on our local machines, which meant being unable to work for 20-30 minutes sometimes. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our whole team can deploy our application seamlessly now with a quick merge into designated GitHub branches, and all of our PRs automatically run all our specs, which is then reflected back in GitHub. ### 18. Good but needs improvement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The ease of use and also we mostly use it as backup **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The different configurations needed for various pipelines, circle ci should make it a bit similar to others **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** CICD ### 19. GOOD BUT BILLING / CRDITS VERY CONFUSING **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** AUTOMATION WITH FASTLANE AND THE BEST IS REALLY IOS **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** BILLING, THE CREDITS THING IS VERY CONFUSING **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** BUILDING IOS BUILDS ### 20. No frills CI/CD platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Navneet S. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Clean interface with filters for projects and branches. Easy integration with Github by just adding a single config.yml file in the project repository. Group different jobs as part of a single workflow. Ability to rerun workflow from the failed step. SSH into the running container allows for easier debugging. Basic Analytics of historic jobs. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes experienced a large delay to run some jobs. On rare cases one might need to cancel and restart the workflow. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it for continuous integration for automated build and automated tests with integration with Github, ### 21. A nice CI tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roman G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** User facing UI and functionalities. Full featured. Fast and resilient, especially when the release of version 2.0, we are able to benefit from docker layers caching..our build time improved by 70% Docker support is great when using container based builds -Competitive pricing and free tier -Snappy / Responsive UI The great configurational freedom to the user makes it suitable for any and all kinds of applications. The step by step view provided is very helpful UI to track the whole process. The YML templates make it very easy to set up and the git configuration part is very well documented and just a few steps can make it work. Is integrated with several tools like slack - Configure a project is simple and quick, and most of the cases once you have done this, you will not need to log in into the platform. You will have build going in a couple of hours. - I have it running in several project and works really well. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The ui really needs to cleanup a bit, make it simpler. Also their need to provide more integrations with third party tools Pricing could be a little bit better I guess or have a better free plan for beginners, I don't think any cons of using CircleCI actually. Have seen a few downtimes in the last couple of months. Version 2 has a lot of complexity that can make it hard to get started with. Their Orbs concept is bringing back some simplicity. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Nice tool. Should go with it, frequent update and such. Take **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automatization is making us saving time. ### 22. Good. But lagging behind Github Actions **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexis V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Good conceptual model for doing CI, good features, good UI. Better CI concepts. It offered simple integration with Github (obviously industry standard), good permission controls, especially across organizations. A relatively good UI and straightforward billing model (discounted when activated from Github). **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Lack of sharable library and buy in for said feature from community. Seems "heavy". Multiple workflows would be really nice. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Use Circle CI for a solid CI/CD experience, but consider Github Actions for a more lightweight, extensible experience. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, automated deployment, builds, artifact generation and continuous testing. We maintain a mono repo and so getting builds right is important. Circle CI's caching mechanisms were especially useful there, but slightly too slow to be fully used. We ended up switching to an inhouse S3 based solution. Faster docker image downloads and better layer caching would also be particularly useful. Until Circle CI gets better at offering a lightweight experience, with multiple flows and better modularity and sharability, ill be using github. Very tight integration with Github will make the effort to use a separate platform over githubs internal options are really required. ### 23. Very convenient once everything is set-up. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Integrates well with AWS services. Can filter deployment depending on the branch used in git. Can SSH into the machine during build phase in case errors show up. Shows a step by step procedure for every phase. Can divide the deployment into phases. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Difficult to find out what went wrong during set-up. Some docker images lose support, thereby breaking builds that were already working in the past. Sometimes takes a while to set-up a build. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Set-up is difficult especially when you don't have a template to use. Searching for solutions can take a while when encountering errors. Once set-up is done, it is very convenient since most of the time the errors will be coming from your code or the server to deployed on. Highly recommended for long term use. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Runs auto-deployment with test cases together with my repositories. We get an idea for when a change can possibly break in the environment we use. Doesn't deploy code to live if tests fails. Saves time deploying the changes to live server. ### 24. Flexible and robust, ramp-up can be frustrating **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben D. | Principal Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The free plan to get your test harness working before spending $$$ on cycles. Heroku CI and Travis CI don't seem to have that free, non-non-profit plan. And the flexibility to have a config that could handle literally anything. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The initial setup can feel like days of guess-and-check with the configuration, and every once in a while tests will randomly fail on their end for a day, and then pass the next day. Also the new UI was very circuitous and frustrating to use for a long time, and only last month were most of the problems fixed. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Use the free plans as much as possible until you get your configurations ready, so you don't feel a monetary burden just for learning someone else's DSL/API. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Full-stack testing and unit testing for B2B and consumer apps. The benefits have been reliable test coverage and QA with our small team, without having to dedicate our own laptops to constant running. ### 25. Efficient, parallel continuous integration services **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric M. | Director of Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI runs multiple, chained CI pipelines for our projects, reporting back at each step. Running code coverage as well makes it easy to keep our systems current and deploy immediately. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The lack of proper namespacing makes us a tiny bit uncomfortable with deployments. Anyone with the ability to configure or run a job can extract potentially sensitive credentials from the system. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CircleCI to dynamically build and cache Docker containers while also testing our code and, when/if all tests pass, deploy directly to production. Knowing that a deployment only requires a merge means we can trust our system to update itself and focus instead on writing production code. ### 26. Fantastic tool for CI/CD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI is really helpful with continuous integration and deployment. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Going back to the service from settings takes a few more clicks than it should **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI and CD ### 27. Awesome Integration with GitHub **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan K. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2013 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Easily integrates with Github and other tools. Super simple to set up pipelines. Great support, can get help within seconds. 99.999999% Uptime. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes takes a long time for every thing to run. If you push to the same repo again while it is running, it will keep running, and then have to run again for the new commit. This can be helped by having multiple runners. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Start with the free trial and see it if you like it! **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** CircleCI allows our engineering team to ensure we are only pushing/merging code that passes our tests. It increases visibility into tests and helps us make sure testing is treated as a strong importance. It also makes it very easy for us to personalize and automate our deployment pipelines. ### 28. Great Continuous Integration/Deployment Option for Small Startups **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Docker integrations make setup really easy with our existing codebase. Everything is well documented and customer support is responsive. There are a large ecosystem of libraries for plug-ins, docker images, and orbs. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** We had trouble setting it up with Cypress (end to end) tests. Also, setting up machine executed test ran much slower than docker containers. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using CircleCI for continuous integration and testing and it has helped out improve our development speed immenselly. ### 29. Great experience, some quirks but overall very useful **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Versatile Easy to configure using orbs and available documentation Makes build workflows easy and improves our agile processes **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The UI leaves to be desired at times There are some approval features that could be better without having the need for an external integration **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Use orbs and workflows as much as possible to leverage the full power of CircleCI **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We improve our build quality and centralize our build processes ### 30. Best CI/CD tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prashant Vardhan S. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI allows automation across the user’s pipeline, from code building, testing to deployment. Easy to integrate with Github. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Didn't see any issue with CircleCI as of now. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Unit testing ### 31. Fast, solid, reproducible builds every single time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Integrates really well with source code repos like Github. Builds are generally fast and the container aspects of the pipelines are fully customizable. Very reliable and cheap compared to maintaining an in-house CI/CD solution. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The new workflows take a bit of getting used to, but otherwise nothing much negative to report. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** CircleCI completely replaced our Jenkins based build systems, making our pipeline miles faster, more stable and easier to maintain. Once we moved to containerised build we were able to build container images on CircleCI and push them out to our deployment/repo system with very little effort. The CircleCI configuration is also really easy to pick up for new team members and really easy to customize to our needs. ### 32. Simple to use and configure. Nice UI. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Easy configuration and integration with other services. Especially when it comes to alerts on messaging apps like Slack or Flowdock. Also, the integration with GitHub or Bitbucket in order to rapidly set up projects is a nice feature. If you use Docker, start using CircleCI is a matter of minutes. The automatic setup: it makes a separate branch for it and you barely have to fix some small settings. The best part probably, since I'm using Heroku for most of my projects (mainly Ruby on Rails apps), is the plugin to add it and automate the deployments. If you are a Quality Assurance Automation engineer, it's also an amazing tool to have your tests running and it is not technically hard to use. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Documentation on how to build my own integration (with some custom tool). The change of the User Interface design was a little confusing and I keep using the old one for some time. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Give it a try. The learning curve is quite short and you will be up and running in an eyeblink. Is great to integrate with other tools. Its price is affordable so you can try and test it for some time with some small projects. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have my continuous integration and continuous delivery tasks for my projects running there. But I have also some functional tests for dev branches. As a freelancer I used to use CircleCI to run small projects or proof of concepts. It's also a good tool to learn using Continuous Integration and the foundation. The main benefit is the easy access (I mean, the low price/free option). ### 33. Perfect **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas C. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It's easy to setup, cache is awesome, and it reliable. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Nothing really, circle CI is all I expect from a CI **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly continuous testing and continuous deployment. ### 34. It was the best tool for CI/CD **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinicius L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Integration with the best partners of the market. From GitHub to Bitbucket, it offers deep integration with biggest players of the market. And we can improve our code pipeline and quality by adding merge checks depending on build tools. Also, non-technical people can easily deploy into the desired environment without making a mess or stopping development team to make a deploy for a demo or feature review. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The new pricing model makes us migrate to another service. It's more expensive than AWS CodeBuild and doesn't have such integration with AWS Services. That's why it should be more cheap than AWS CodeBuild or come back with the old pricing model. The old pricing model was much cost-benefit cause we are not impacted for queuing jobs, but we could predict the pricing at the end of the month. With the new pricing model it was much, much harder to predict how much we would spend by the month. If we need to expedite a hotfix to production environment it was the fixed pricing, with the new pricing model, if an unexpected hotfix appears, that means more dollar will be spent by the of the month. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Forget about Travis and Jenkins. CircleCI is the next generation of CI/CD pipeline. But beware with your budget, with the new pricing model the billing by the end of month could be astronomical. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complexity of deploy multiples times per day. It handles automated deploy for all environments, so our developers can see and delivery to QA Team what we are delivering in question of minutes and a couple of clicks. Our developers can easily see logs of what errors are throwing during the compiling. So basically, it's the end of "in my machine works" excuse. We can go directly to the point causing the error, and it's not directly assign to a developer, another developer also can see the error and find a solution. It's the end of the dependency of and especific developer. ### 35. Good CI tooling **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Simple to set up, easy integration with git hosting services e.g: github **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** No particular point, minor things like the report could look better. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying a multiplatform embedded software stack, it brought the true CI/CD deliveries saving time for testing build and unit tests by hand to deploying after that also manually. ### 36. CircleCi is one of the smoothest pipeline tools and one of the simplest one I highly recommend it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Dispute Resolution | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** * Contains MacOs machines for iOS pipelines * Simple to use * Easy to maintain * Documentation is very clear * Big community **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** * Memory consumption * Little bit expensive than other tools (but still totally worth it) **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Highly recommended **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** * iOS pipelines * backends pipelines * Android pipeline ### 37. Very complete and fast CI tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The parallelism, possibilities and support. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Could be more mobile friendly. For an iOS project, for example, it is hard to setup. Could be like bitwise. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want my iOS project to build, test and deploy in a fast and automated way. ### 38. Easy to Use, Trusted with all our deployments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It's tightly integrated with Github which makes it easy to take code directly to builds. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** It's not easy for a newcomer to figure out where everything is. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some of the historic builds are difficult to find. ### 39. My Circle CI 'Get me that Amazon Voucher bribery does work' review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Maintenance of standards in code formatting and layout styles. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Not being able to see the reasons for failure within Github directly, but having too click out to review them within the CircleCI platform, however not sure if this is your issue, or Github's, but I don't like it either way. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintenance of standards in code formatting and layout styles, and saving recourses to monitor that ### 40. A great platform for CI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lee P. | Chief Operating Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** This platform is fast and friendly, and most importantly helps run all my unit tests to stop issues making way into production **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Prefer the old interface to the new one. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** A strong CI platform that can do everything you would need. I couldn't imagine us wanting to move to another platform any time soon. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build our code AMI and run tests. ### 41. Very slow and poor quality support that block our product delivery **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kwun Lok N. | CEO **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It was good but now the service is very problematic. Going to migrate to other tools instead **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Poor support and always deliver features that broke existing configs **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI process for the team ### 42. Fully-featured product with awesome UI/UX **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2017 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I really love CircleCI's UI / UX. Being able to see builds spin up and run in real-time is perfect. I find everything very intuitive and useful. Whenever builds fail, I can very quickly find the problem and re-run the build. My favorite feature is begin able to SSH into the machine which has come in handy for some very tough to track down build failures. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** When it comes to core features, there's really nothing I dislike. CircleCI does a great job of providing an elegant, well-thought out product. Everything they do, they do well. So to find what I dislike, you basically have to look at what they don't do. The top thing on my list is Selenium support. We've gotten it to work in CircleCI but it's hasn't been easy. I feel like there's probably something they could do to improve Selenium support although it's probably not easy. But that would certainly bring them to the next level in my mind. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** CircleCI is the only solution I've tried in this space, but they do a great job. They've had one or two outages in my time with them, but they've addressed and resolved those outages very quickly and professionally. Their pricing is very fair and easy to try out before you need to commit to a large contract or anything so there's definitely no reason not to try them! **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** They allowed us to implement Continuous Integration / Deployment and automated testing *very* quickly. It really has made that process so fun and easy that I've never had to convince anyone on my team why that might be a good idea. We've vastly improved our reliability. No longer are buggy builds getting pushed to live. Definitely a vital part of our process now. ### 43. It's one of the best ci tools I have ever used much better than jenkins **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omer B. | Lead SDET, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Its ease just need to configure config.yml file and things get executed **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Nothing at this point of my usage I did not find anything which I really disliked about it **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are managing all our builds using circleci ### 44. Better than hosting and managing your own CI/CD **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I like how it integrates with GitHub and the UI is fairly streamlined. Also, the documentation is decent. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Nothing specific, although I remember encountering issues when sorting out the dependency cache. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** I recommend trying out several comparable solutions to make sure the one you select is a good fit. Also, a managed service is preferable to maintaining your own based on experience. You need to have a fairly specific need. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing continuous integration and automation around all of our codebases in order to ensure quality and consistency. ### 45. CircleCI - Easy, Fast, and Well-Documented Setup and CI for Small & Large Business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The new UI for CircleCI is user-friendly. The documentation is easy to use and you can learn the tool very quickly. I love the fact that you can do direct integration with Git and other tools without having to do a lot of research. Also, security is great with CircleCI with it's management of environment variables and secrets. When tests fail, you do see the tests that failed, with their names and the top-level error. This makes it very easy and quick to debug errors in CI builds where tests have many errors... only showing the most important ones at the forefront. I love that you can use Privar Docker containers in your config.yml builds. Other tools, such as GitLabCI, do not allow the usage of private containers, but only Private Docker repositories. We are utilizing the main Docker Hub with a private container and can test it using a public framework in a secure manner, this is very great functionality. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Email notifications enabled with CI default. Sometimes it is not clear how the cache is used and how to maintain the cache in your config files to optimize the builds. The test results are not very verbose/detailed if all of the tests pass when running tests which output a JUnit/etc. file. It just states "All tests are passing." I wish it would include the attached test results PDF and screenshots taken during UI testing in this view somewhere. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast CI for managing our Docker containers and assisting clients with new functionality faster than before. We are able to test things in a framework faster, and thus can get more changes to our Docker images out to clients. I am able to implement smaller changes quickly and get near instant results on test branches, all within the same tool. I can do live demos with clients, showcasing our integrations with 3rd-party tools (namely CircleCI) and Git as well. ### 46. A solid CI/CD pipeline platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The ability to use it to build iOS apps, which many other CI/CD platforms do not support. Highly configurable via a solid declarative pipeline. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Environment variables cannot be switched based on branch/environment. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building mobile apps, front-end projects and APIs and reporting back on code quality to the repositories. ### 47. CircleCI is a key component of our deployment workflow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Ease of use for managing branch deployments **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Nothing, everything we need works as expected! **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous integration and managing branch deployments for staging and production. ### 48. Good mostly because free for private repositories **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rafal L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Being free for private repositories, some way to use docker containers **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** UI/UX workflow is very heavy and unintuitive, machines often don't work **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a CI which is free for private repositories mostly ### 49. Great tools, Excellent support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI is an industry standard for cloud verification and testing of code. The fact it's a managed platform means you can work on any repo from any location, on any machine, all without ever merging bugs or errors. The support team are both very friendly, and very knowledgable, and have always replied in a timely manor even for the lowest of support tiers. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes the setup is a little complicated, which you can expect with any highly configurable service. But there are multiple guides out there, and once a repo has been configured, you won't need to edit it again for a while. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Watch out for caching! That's the only issue we seem to run into. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stability in code between team members. We use Rubocop and RSpec to ensure everything looks the same and runs the same. ### 50. Reliable service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2020 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCi is a reliable CI platform. In my experience, when issues with your build arise, it's easy to trace them down and fix. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** There are minor UX issues. For example, when "rebuilding from last failed", the UI takes you for some reason to "All Pipelines" instead of the relevant pipeline. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CircleCI to continuously integrate the codebase, run tests, enforce rules and make sure the code is ready for merge. ## 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? 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