--- 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: '2026-07-26' 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 for CI/CD **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Versatility is one of the best thing in CircleCI. You can use any container and run anything there. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Configuration takes time to learn and needs much knowledge to work good **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running test, building images and deploy to server. After configuration is ready, everything works automatically. ### 2. Pretty good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** the ui, user experience, the way configuration is set **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** sometimes it says that the job is still running but if i refresh the page i see that it finished and other jobs are actually running **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** continuous deployment of our team's projects and repositories ### 3. Easy to navigate, even for a QA newbie **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The layout of the website, and log in integration with GitHub. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The number of emails I receive from the company. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Do it! **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic QA and bug statuses are easy to track, and I can easily monitor the progress being made by other engineers ### 4. Powerfull and accesible **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It is easy to setup, use and navigate through the interface **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The web application can be cluttered sometimes in some sections like the workflows and running processes overloading you with information **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us unify our pipelines and automate tasks ### 5. Works well for our use case **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The ease of adding it into our pipeline. It was easy to get up and running quickly. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Pricing. The pricing model is convoluted and gets quite expensive quickly. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managed build pipelines we don't have to maintain beyond a yaml ### 6. Nice interface, very easy to follow and create concurrent workflows **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Creating concurrent workflows. Ease of use **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** There was one troubling UI thing where it was tough to click on the failing segment of the workflow. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Great product **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just running builds for PRs, running test suites and making sure nothing is broken. ### 7. circle ci fun **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** - reliability - process for code review **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** we have some flappers and need to re-run frequently **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** code review process is smooth and automates some portion of review by running any changes through full test harness ### 8. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I love how easy it is to config and make changes to the configuration. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Being able to download error logs would be awesome. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do automated testing and deployment. It makes keeping our site up to date easy. ### 9. Enterprise needs work **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Smooth interface, one of the slickest out there. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Enterprise install is not polished and really could use a conversion to K8s or Fargate. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Smoothest CICD for users, admin is still rough around edges. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Smooth easy CICD ### 10. Good tool to deploy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It's easy to use for developers. Great errros control **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** It can be difficult to set up, especially if you are not used to use tools like this **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** continous integrations made easy ### 11. Good but not great!! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Ease of use for simpler use cases. Nice UI. Easy integration with GitHub. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Hard to figure out complex orchestrations. No clear documentation available for authentication needs to GitHub. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated CI/CD pipeline. ### 12. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI is extremely helpful for assisting in the CI of my company **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** CircleCI could be more transparent with their data **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD automation ### 13. Best in the industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Fast build times and flexible pipeline syntax. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** UI could be a little better, some times it is hard to find projects. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast build times. ### 14. Reliable and stable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Newspapers | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It's very responsive and detailed in reporting errors **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes it gets stuck and not able to process PRs. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy integration and offer detailed information ### 15. Good product, need more features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** many things are already ready, just need to wire all the steps **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** testing the pipeline can be a bit tedious. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** nothing special ### 16. My favorite Continuous Integration tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It's been very easy to get up and going with CircleCI and the dashboard is very easy to follow and intuitive to use. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** For what I've worked on, I have no complaints with CircleCI at all. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for continuous integration, building Docker images of our applications, and uploading those to DockerHub automatically. It's been a wonderful experience with using their system. ### 17. Reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** User-friendly and wizards to accomplish tasks. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** None of the applications lacked the ability to execute a task. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Reliable and worthy. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ### 18. CircleCI is the best Tool I have ever used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I had liked in all aspects and especially build and automation is good. The tool support is very responsive and Everyone in the team liked it very much and it saved a lot of efforts and money for the project . All these things i had used in my previous client place . **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Nothing much, everything is good and its most reliable . Dislike is always tuff to mention when this tool is doing more good things . **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** The Tool recommendation is absolutely necessary atleast to give it a try . You will like the tool for sure and especially when you are waterfall methodology , you will catch the issues very earlier in the phase . Automation is also can come handy when you want to run old Unit test cases and test the current code . I had liked in all aspects and especially build and automation is good. The tool support is very responsive and Everyone in the team liked it very much and it saved a lot of efforts and money for the project . All these things i had used in my previous client place .I had solved my planning . I had solved my building and automation and improved in the aspect of multi logins to the same codes and check in's and automating unit test cases and documentation . **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had solved my planning . I had solved my building and automation and improved in the aspect of multi logins to the same codes and check in's and automating unit test cases and documentation . ### 19. A nice continous integration server on the cloud. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Esteban O. | Founder and CTO, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Unit testing is the most important element in our software development process, since it guarantees the quality of our product, but at the same time, is the most time consuming since we have around 8,000 tests and take around 30 minutes to run in a fast computer. When run, they are very resource intensive, so the developer can't do much while they are running. CircleCi takes care of it for us and notifies us in case something goes wrong. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes the service is a little bit slow and unresponsive. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** If you want to simplify your product development process and automate the testing and deployment, look no further. Circle CI delivers ! **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quality of our product is the main problem CircleCI helps us solve. Time savings and developer productivity is a big WIN for us. Build automation is another great feature. Being able to push changes via their workflows is a time saver. ### 20. Circleci is GREAT **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2019 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Errors are easy to identify and the testing integration with GitHub is fantastic and has saved our bacon several times! **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes tests take a long time to run and cannot be run in parallel **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** It is a great continuous integration and deployment tool and the integration with GitHub is RAD! **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Catching conflicts between repos and within the code base before the code goes to QA ### 21. Great for Deployment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manthan M. | Undergraduate Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I love how easy it is to deploy a public repository to a private server while hiding all sensitive content. Travis CI does not allow for this. The builds are also significantly faster than other platforms, and the UI is modern unlike some of the other competitors. I am surprised this isnt more popular among open source communities as it is pretty much free for both private and public repositories. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** I'm not a fan of their new 2.0 system. I find the config file too verbose but this could be good if thats what you need. Travis CI and Gitlab have a much nicer config set up which I prefer. It is nice that they provide sample configs we can copy so it is bearable. I can see how this could be better for more complicated projects. I also find the dashboard a bit confusing. I think Travis CI nailed this with their UI, so this is something Circle CI could improve on. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Give it a shot, its free! **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Other Continuous integrations do not provide the ability to deploy open source projects to private repositories. Circle CI however does let us, which means we can deploy things like our documentation to private servers for hosting but let the general public provide their editing and skills. The ability to set private environment variables and the ability to copy the public key so I can use that on my private servers for deployment. ### 22. Great product, wish the builds were a bit faster! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evan T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Great docker support. Good UI. Good docs. Good Github integration. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** 1. Most of our build time is spent spinning up the environment. I wish that was a bit faster. 2. It would be GREAT if I could exit early from a job without giving an exit error code. Basically I want to skip parts of the job based on certain conditions. Of course I can do this inside a shell script, but some build steps cannot be executed inside a shell. The example I'm thinking of is "setup_remote_docker", which comprises a large chunk of our build time (see point 1). **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're actually using CircleCI to deploy our SAAS product. It helps keep us agile. ### 23. Great tool for integrated testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjeet U. | React Developer (Contract), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It can easily be set up with GitHub, and from there makes sure a new feature to be pulled in the main code base doesn't break any of the tests that have been set up. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** It's probably not a circle-ci thing, but when first introduced to circle-ci and not doing the actual set up of it as a junior it can be a learning curve. When you have failing tests in the circle ci it can be hard to see the errors or know which commands to run depending on the test suite that is failing especially with es-lint. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making sure that new features are compliant with the testing suites and that it doesn't break the main code base. ### 24. Great for production deployment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It's ease of use. It automatically takes our master branch and runs all the necessary tests to make sure everything integrates smoothly in our production branch **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** At times it would fail due to some deployment errors, but the issues are usually easy to fix **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** It's a great service that could save you a future headache **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since there are many developers in the team, using this tool has prevented many bugs from being merged into production, which could cause our app to crash and malfunction, possibly making us lose customers. ### 25. Help in integrating with circleci **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jerrod M. | Project Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI is universal, easy to configure and integrates well with existing cloud services. The pricing is calculated "for parallel assembly", in contrast to "for the project" - this allows us to also include several small projects on the side without breaking the bank. The ability of SSH to machine is an excellent bonus, this reduces the amount of time spent tracking errors. CirclecI simplifies the configuration of the integration server - in most cases, a simple yml-file with minimal changes between projects easily allows our Android applications in CI! **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Sometimes I run into problems with an outdated cache, and I have to rebuild the assembly manually. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** When you use CircleCI, you save a lot of time! Subscribing to a small development team justifies itself. You get a 14-day trial period to try it out, so do not hesitate to find out if it meets all the requirements of your team **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running large sets of tests is the main advantage. We hope now to create Docker containers with a conveyor. ### 26. Awesome CI tool which can easily be configured to fit needs of small to large scale projects. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick H. | Senior Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** - Easy to get up and running with a basic configuration - Lots of options to improve your configuration - Possibility to SSH into build containers to debug issues - Fair pricing - Fast e-mail support **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** - Product roadmap could be more transparent. The switch to CCI2 was pretty well executed, but I'd love to get more involved in plans for new features, bugfixes etc. Some kind of Changelog would be nice. - I sometimes feel like the responses on the discuss.io board are a bit lacking, but that's very subjective. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** - Spend some time figuring out how you can improve the workflow of one small project. - Use the first config you created and think about how you can go further and which parts of your process could possibly be automated or made easier with CCI. - Write the support team or join their discuss board if you have specific problems you can't solve on your own. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Unit and UI Tests automatically run on every commit - Building iOS and Android apps automatically on merges to specific branches, and in some cases auto-publishing to respective stores - Automated Deployment of web applications ### 27. It's a fantastic way to automate almost any project from testing to deployment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The workflows and ability to run different sets of tests or types of tests on a single repository is fantastic. You can have both your javascript frontend code and python backend code in the same repository and run tests and deployments on them both. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The pricing model is a little confusing for the cloud-based setup in terms of deciding what you really need. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Check it out. Their support team has been great so far in giving advice and input on the best way to implement some things. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** If the desire is to move to infrastructure as code and move away from tools like Jenkins, this seems like a great way to do it. We're able to include all our configuration and deployment code in the repo with the code. ### 28. CircleCI is one of the coolest CI systems in the block **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yoanis G. | Sr. Cloud Application Architect & DevOps, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI is very easy to use. You can see that the company puts a lot of effort to provide developers the best CI/CD integration there is. What I like best: - Pipeline as code: deployment/build pipeline is part of your code and it's actually checked in in your VCS) - Docker integration: CircleCI 2.0 is containers all the way - Failure details: You can easily see at which stage and why a build/deployment pipeline failed **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** One thing I would love to see CircleCI support is GPU but well that only applies if you're in the AI domain. Also probably better / more exhaustive build stats. I'm not entirely sure if it's possible but it would be nice if Docker volumes could be more easily supported when using the Remote Docker option. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** If you're into CI/CD then you ought to give CircleCI a try. It's a modern tool that can help you do a better job. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Continuous Integration - Automated builds/deployments ### 29. The Easiest CI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ihsan F. | Principal Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I like circle ci with the ease of it's implementation, doesn't have to learn the whole new things, it's also provide us with ssh access to your build which can be helpful sometimes to debug your problems, and you can do it with a single click. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** I can't control how many cpu that circle ci use for my build, or I don't know how, maybe I just need to read the docs, i'm just too lazy. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Take it, it will save you alot of times and hard work **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help us with the automated build and test and also provide us with the build artifacts which we can use for the deployment also give use archive for each of our build, this things save us alot of time and cost ### 30. Fast, useful, most suitable for simpler projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario C. | Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI 2.0 now offers a powerful engine to run jobs on top of Docker images, which allows you to run whatever you need for your project, not being limited by the supported languages. Also, pipelines and workflows are highly customizable. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Although you can customize the pipelines however you want, having to write everything using YAML is really annoying and if you have a slightly more complicated pipeline, you'll end up with a huge YAML file on your project. Also, their UI needs to be upgraded with features like workflows in mind, as currently you can see a list of recent builds, as in 1.0, but cannot see a list with all previous workflows and which jobs have been ran on them, like in GoCD, for example. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm automating the test and deployment of many projects from my open-source organization. CircleCI has proved one of the best free options available due to its free plan to open-source repositories, even for mobile (iOS) projects. ### 31. A booster for your team efficiency **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philipp G. | Product Manager, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It was super easy to do the initial setup. We were ready in less than a week. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Using the documentation is sometimes hards since there are two versions. V1 seems to be the default but everything else encourages you to use only V2 features. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our devs had to wait up to 20 minutes for our test pipeline to finish. This didn't even include all checks but only the most relevant ones. The result was that the review column of our Kanban board just grew and grew because it was so hard to push features through. With Circle CI we execute 3 times the checks in a quarter of the time. This immediately cleared the review column and also sped up the reviews since we could automate more. ### 32. Hard to setup and goes down a lot **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dillon W. | Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The automatic pairing with Github is really slick, especially as I add more repos over time. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** It's super complicated to setup anything more than a default build, especially with the new 2.0 configuration. There also seems to be a ton of downtime or partial outages, and no compensation is given when this happens. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** If you need to build against multiple versions of a library/language (such as Ruby), TravisCI might be better for you. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving a need for Continuous Integration. As other parts of our process come into place later this year we hope to also use it for Continuous Delivery. The main benefit is that we have an automated ability to have our tests execute on each push to Github and see test results within Github PRs for easy review. ### 33. Great tool for increased development productivity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anton v. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** The ability to parallelise different aspects of the build flow and increase build speed considerably especially for larger scale applications. Additionally the ease of iterating the workflows by introducing minor changes and being able to test those quickly against specific branch build made it super easy for us to improve our build over time whilst using it. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** There's nothing to properly dislike! The general interface could do with some improvements to allow e.g. adding titles for containers that run specific build steps on the UI to make it easier for less technical users in the org to understand what's going on, but it's more of a small issue as opposed to something big. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to standardise the build flow on CI including running test etc and linking that up to our Github pull requests made a whole suite of automated checks available that we didn't have before raising the level of product quality that we are able to deliver. ### 34. Good experience using CircleCI Performance Plan **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashim S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** - Integration with GitHub - Flexibility to run custom docker containers - Secret Management in CircleCI Environment - Concept of Workflow with ability to run jobs in parallel - Dependency between job trigger - Effective communication medium for CircleCI Health Status **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** - On occasions during restore cache process, untar operation is killed - Cache store and restore of anything exceeding 1G takes several minutes - Latency of loading custom docker image from AWS ECR repo seems high, image size of 500MB have taken 2 minutes at times **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** - CI / CD - SDLC ### 35. Excellent service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul S. | CTO, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2017 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI is continuously adding new features such as Workflows and support for Docker, which has fit very well into our software development lifecycle. In particular, support for docker-based builds and tests works very well for us. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The new workflows feature reports build success/failure on each step without indicating which part of the workflow succeeded or failed, making it difficult to know when a run is complete. Per-workflow notifications rather than per-job notifications would improve this substantially for us. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Its a great service with a good support community and I personally received excellent direct support from several CircleCI employees via the support forums and direct email. The initial setup is straight forward and I was able to get our first project building and running tests using CircleCI in about a day's worth of effort. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CircleCI to automate running test suites on our software products as part of our regular software development lifecycle. Having tests run automatically after pushing commits gives us confidence to release early and release often, and also to identify problems early in the software development cycle. ### 36. Needed to give feedback to my reviewers on the state of my test **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miguel M. | Lead Software Engineer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Very easy to use. You can analyse the state of your task with ease. Very powerful configuration scripting through a very simple yaml file. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Had some problems reaching a configuration that worked for me. It all came down to some inexperience with the type of machine that runs the jobs. It would be great to have docker image that would boot a local machine where you could test run your setup. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Github won't let merge any code without passing the tests. My reviewers have a quick assurance that all tests are passing or they have a look at what failed and make fun of me. :) ### 37. Our mobile CI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** During our search for our new CI provider for primarily our iOS team, CircleCI came to our attention. Their models allow for highly concurrent builds and fast startup times, which is very important to us. Their support is fast and on point. The best thing is the launch of workflows which come with their 2.0. They enable a lot of complex builds. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** They just released their 2.0 version and at the moment it lacks some features we really would like to see. But they are working hard on bringing these as fast as possible to the product. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CircleCI for our continuous integration and delivery of our mobile applications. In the past we only had 1 Jenkins jobs running and the developers had to wait a long time until their tests were run. With CircleCI they see the results within minutes. ### 38. The Cleanest Looking Build Manager **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan P. | Lead iOS Engineer, Sports, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2017 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I am very impressed with how clean the UI/UX of CircleCI is. I have used many other build managers but none as nice as CircleCI. I also like how different aspects of the build were broken down by CircleCI. I haven't seen this on any other build manager and the individual times for each section are a huge help to figure out what part of the build process is taking the longest - helping us reduce time and reduce costs. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** I didn't like how long builds have to wait. I get that there's a paid tier with more containers but waiting 20+ mins just to start a build is ridiculous. I think there needs to be a better solution to allow for more parallel builds **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Use the support tools **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're solving CI with unit tests and deployment for testing to Apple's TestFlight ### 39. Level up your pipeline **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander S. | (Under)Graduate Software Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCi came to our rescue when Travis was blocking us at every turn. With the ability to use docker containers, schedule cron builds, and restore cache files; CircleCi became our best decision to date and shaved our build times in half **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Our only dislike is the config.yml file. It can become very verbose. But it's not difficult to maintain, and it rarely changes after setup **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Give it a try. Especially version 2.0. Our pipeline times have been cut in half and our workflows enhanced our continuous integration and continuous deployment. No longer to we have to trigger a database backup or merge our code into a staging branch. CircleCi was able to do it all! **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** CircleCi is the center of our development team. We use it to run all quality checks; build and deploy infrastructure all over the world; coordinate our staging code branch; and trigger backup procedures. We're yet to find something CircleCi can't do for us ### 40. CircleCI is what CI should be **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Workflows and how easy it is to parallelize build jobs. I didn't have to ask devops to set up anything! **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** We have services behind a VPN that public CircleCI cannot access. This is likely solved by CircleCI Enterprise but so far I haven't been able to get Devops to set this up for us. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Hook it up to one of your open source projects and try it for free. It really is great! Take the time to understand how to use workflows. It might sound complicated but it is not complicated at all. It really is great! **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We would like to run our CI test jobs in a very parallelized environment. We also realized that we can run all kinds of useful scripts that analyze our pull requests and interact through GitHub's API. ### 41. Good performance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kent S. | System Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2017 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I like to know that with this solution I can Increase develop productivity. Also, I'm more careful about reduce operational overhead. Great that everything is secured for you. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Nothing to say bad about that platform.What you need you will have. Will helps you to do your work with higher quality. Support service works so great. Always will shows you the right way. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Very great and powerful tools. Great to work with that software and easy to use. And very helpful with your creation. Much faster work than you think. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** As for its the greatest Software for the company. The CircleCI Helps us with automatically test of our creation in a clean case.We are all notified if a build breaks down so problems can be fixed fast. ### 42. Fast, reliable, and highly configurable CI system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James R. | CTO and Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI is an absolute breeze to work with, and can be configured to work for pretty much any project with as little as a few lines of config. It's native docker support is an incredible asset for our team. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Docker layer caching is a paid additional feature, which we really feel should be included with any paid plan. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** CircleCI's documentation is generally really great, and with the release of 2.0, their platform is better than ever. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** The release of CircleCI 2.0 was incredible for our team's productivity. We halved our build times, and were pushing more and more frequently. ### 43. Fast deployment for all DEV **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julien S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Easy to configure for multiple projects. Circle allow to run tests (unit and functional) on every push. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** On Free plan sometime the queue can be long. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** The Free plan let you try and discover the platform even with private repo **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Circle to test and deploy all branches on dev which provide an easy way to check if the development do what we want. All teams can now test their request before production ### 44. Great experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John (Jack) R. | Chief Security Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI is clearly the leader in CI/CD for microservices. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** It's difficult for us to migrate from 1.0 to 2.0 and the pricing plan makes it difficult to support both. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** All of our CI/CD both on-prem and in the cloud is being migrated to Circle. Engineers love it, so it makes my life easy. ### 45. Time saving and scalable workers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** CircleCI provides an easy to way to setup projects with multiple workers and pipelines. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** Painful when you need to migrate 20+ projects from circle v1 to v2 **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous Deployment. Benefits are: I don't need to manage my own CI instance nor hire build masters to maintain my CI infrastructure and builds. ### 46. Confusing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lee D. | Solutions Engineer, Human Resources, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** It really integrates well with everything. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The interface is confusing, seems to refresh data randomly **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Be aware that you will be waiting on some parts **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test running and deployment ### 47. Great CI solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** Configurability and good support. They support using custom docker images for building on which really helps with getting all the tooling in one place.being able to use the docker layer in a distributed way also speeds up builds quite a bit **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** No root (so no VPN access) when building. Which you could make changed to the config through the web dashboard instead of only by editing the yaml. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our iteration cycles are much shorter, friendly interface for watching builds. Low barrier to entry to customize builds ### 48. CircleCI? YAY! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** I love that CircleCI is so thorough and complete! I also really appreciate that CircleCI has a friendly user experience. Making sure I have coverage is much less of a headache than it was once upon a time. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** My biggest "dislike" about CircleCI? Has to be when I have code that doesn't pass and I feel sad. If only that wasn't a me problem! :D **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** CircleCI helps ensure our code is tested and verified, and that we're making responsible releases. ### 49. Really good but some things could improve **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesus Adolfo R. | Junior Manager, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2017 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** First, parallel builds, second the support from the CircleCI team has been pretty good and the tool itself has a very nice user interface. **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** The way the failing tests are shown is not that nice. We would like to have a nicer breakdown of the tests so it would be much easier to find. At the moment we have to go through the log or search the word "failing" to find out what is wrong. I really hope this changes later on. **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Overall, I think the tool can be improved but I am optimistic about its future. I hope they listen to users and keep improving. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** One big problem with had before with another CI was the unavailability of parallel builds that was one of the main reasons our team decided to move to CircleCI ### 50. The easyiest experience with CI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leandro F. | DevOps Engineer, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018 **What do you like best about CircleCI?** How it was easy to configure and keep running and the cost **What do you dislike about CircleCI?** I think it's a little slow and that forces you to buy more containers **Recommendations to others considering CircleCI:** Keep in mind that for low volume it can be cheap, but as your need grow it will become very expensive. **What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous integration across my team and testing ## 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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