--- title: Codefresh Reviews meta_title: 'Codefresh Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 70 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Codefresh works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 70 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # Codefresh Reviews **Vendor:** Octopus Deploy **Category:** [Continuous Delivery Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-delivery-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 70 ## About Codefresh Codefresh is the GitOps platform for reliably shipping changes fast, making it easy to promote software changes securely. With Codefresh GitOps Cloud, DevOps teams and developers can easily create promotion flows by connecting multiple existing Argo CD instances to a single control plane—no additional software needed. Plug into your existing Argo instances - Codefresh can plug into your existing Argo instances to make it easy to model continuous deployment across any number of namespaces, Argo instances, clusters, or applications. Streamlined deployments across environments - Set up automated promotion flows in a few clicks and govern how promotions happen by adding testing and environment policies. You get fast, reliable, and secure deployments, built-in GitOps best practices, and total control over your workflows even as you deploy across multiple Kubernetes clusters or Argo CD instances. Unified user interface - Codefresh provides unrivaled visibility into your GitOps workflows. It provides a unified Argo experience that correlates your build events, test suites, project management systems, deployments, and other key integrations into powerful dashboards. Centralized control plane - Manage all of your Argo runtimes across multiple clusters, regions, and networks from a single control plane. It provides detailed dashboards on maintenance, runtime performance, and much more while greatly simplifying the administrative work to maintain availability and security at scale. ## Codefresh Reviews ### 1. Perfect balance between low- and high-level CI/CD management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mathieu F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Perfect balance between low-level close-to-the-metal container-based pipelines and high-level super-user-friendly UI, GitOps support, pipeline debugging with breakpoints, K8s/Docker/Helm as first-class citizens, built-in secrets, a multitude of integrations, great doc and support material/videos/webinars, nice people... (well, there's so much more, do you really want me to keep going?!? ;) **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Set of commands that can be invoked while troubleshooting a pipeline in debug mode is very limited (cd, cat, ls...) **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** I was very happy to discover that Cloud Posse (one of Codefresh's partners) has great documentation, examples and tools to implement DevOps best practices with Codefresh, the most interesting of which is Geodesic. Make sure to check it out, it really helped me a lot! :) **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Capture a rather complex workflow of GitOps pipelines into a relatively simple setup that all developers in our various teams will be able to use, comprehend, troubleshoot and extend. ### 2. Codefresh has many advantages over the current CI/CD tools in the market **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Lots of OOB Integrtations with multiple 3rd party tools and services **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Better documentation and more instructions/tutorials would be great **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster and stable and customizable release pipeline using codefresh over exisitng tools ### 3. Most Streamlined CI/CD Platform for Containerised Applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven R. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** After searching and evaluating a number of different platform for CI/CD we discovered Codefresh to be the most cost effective, easy to use and customisable for all our workflows. With a direct Kubernetes API integration, we can control each cluster directly from the Codefresh dashboard. This has provided us with a faster feedback on making some quick changes like increasing replicas. The Helm Dashboard that allows for easy Helm control such as visibility of which revision is deployed to managing rollbacks makes Codefresh a far superior platform to work with. When running the workflows it is important that we have an easy and flexible system to manage environment variables. Codefresh not only allow easy pipeline editing the variables but also the ability to share variables among projects and pipelines. Some of the best features are - - Multiple Environment Workflows - Shared Environment Variables - Exportable Variables - Customisable Steps - Kubernetes API integration - Unified Log Output - Easy rollbacks with Helm dashboard **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** It would be nice to be able to split the users into teams with better granular RBAC settings. At present all users have access to all projects. Having user groups attached to projects would give more security control to team leaders. At first we used Codefresh for both CI & CD but we discovered that Github actions was was much faster at building, running and testing our code than Codefresh was so we recently opted to use GitHub actions for all CI and just use Codefresh for CD. **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** Highly recommend. You should at least try it and you will find it a much better system that some of the competitors. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Every application is different, every deployment has quirks and every environment should be different. Codefresh gives us the ability to configure every single application, environment and deployment to suit the project's needs while delivering a consistent workflow to the developer. Previously we used a niche system that allowed us to build developer based development environments from a GitHub pull request. We originally wanted to locate and replicate this functionality in a new CI/CD platform and after finding Codefresh we discovered we could do way more that this. We have a custom Cloudflare step that allows us to create a new CNAME of our domain for each environment that is built from the project-branch-environment name. This provided us with a faster QA feedback loop & cleaner sharable URL's in a completely destructible environment. ### 4. Fantastic Build and Integration Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Perry H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** I like that once my build is setup it just works. It's easy to add custom configurations. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** It could be a little faster, but the tests take up most of the time. I could speed things up if I spend some time optimizing tests. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI and building images for our GCP deployments ### 5. Codefresh enabled us to be very flexible and adaptable with our pipeline setup and processes. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph R. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Codefresh doesn't have a single way of setting up the CI. You can set it up and get it running how you want, you can run steps in parallel, or you can run them synchronously, or you can do both. You can trigger other pipelines from the current pipeline and act on their success or failure status. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** The only self-hosted runner option requires kubernetes. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're solving our need for a robust and flexible CI/CD pipeline. We got this happily from using codefresh. ### 6. Pipeline debugger will change your life **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Codefresh makes it insanely easy to integrate my CI/CD pipeline with my K8s infrastructure, without requiring that my K8s infra be married to the CI/CD pipeline or owned by it. The pipeline debugging feature, as the title indicates, is a HUGE game changer. Too many pipelines end up as just a complicated mess of abstractions over the actual logic that is being executed at a given moment, but with the ability to enter a debugging state before, during (for freestyle steps, at least), or after a step has executed allows you to make certain that what you think is happening is actually what is happening. The variety of nearly flawless Codefresh customized containers that they provide as steps you can easily implement in your pipeline while safely abstracting away implementation details and maintaining security and integrity within the pipeline makes my job of implementing a pipeline for the various projects within our company so much easier. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** The default implementation of the Codefresh deployments does require your pipeline to be responsible for the app from initial deployment onward in order to work. However, with the abundance of other step types they provide and crafty use of freestyle steps, you can easily have your own deployment requirements met if the Codefresh defaults don't work for you, for whatever reason. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Codefresh to handle the CI/CD pipeline for our app deployments. We have gained a number of benefits from using Codefresh specifically for this, but the most prominent are likely the fast-fail methodology that the Codefresh CLI lets us utilize by running test builds of the pipeline or executing quick code changes through the pipeline locally, as well as the custom steps you can create and make available to your organization allowing for simple sharing of logic between various pipelines. ### 7. Amazing service that saves a ton of time and money **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan M. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Managing Kubernetes is very complicated and requires someone with a highly specialized skillset, one that's only just now starting to become more popular. Being a software engineer and business owner, I don't have time to manage my daily workload and stay up to date with whatever is happening in the Kubernetes world but at the same time I can't afford dedicated staff to handle that. Between Google Cloud Platform and CodeFresh, I can get by with my limited knowledge very easily and I rarely ever have to get into the Kubernetes plumbing which makes CodeFresh worth the price. Not to mention the insane amount of time it saves me automating my deployments and notifying clients via Slack of their tasks being delivered to production or being ready for review, so I don't have to write a ton of emails. We've just established a simple system so they know when to start looking. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Had some hiccups with support not answering a few of my inquiries at first, but my recent couple experiences have been great and they even personally reached out to learn about the problem when I was a bit blunt about the lack of a response in further support inquiries. Everything was resolved, so really there's nothing I dislike about CodeFresh at the moment. **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** Definitely try it out! **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Automated Deployments / Builds - Automated Client Notification (kinda a hidden benefit) - Initially Kubernetes Management, but I've learned enough about Kubernetes to do that directly through Google Cloud Platform now - Initially container hosting which was since removed ### 8. Makes my deployment easier **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** The UI gives more context to my clusters and pods and the product gives seemeless integration for auto deployment, and notifies me of failures. So, its a complete poackage and I highly recomend the product. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** The loading times can be improved, and I have faced some down times at late night deployments. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving my release management problems. ### 9. Superior tool to modernize CI/CD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Docker based model which avoids the pitfalls of using Jenkins with conflicting plugins. YAML configuration is modern, readable, and easily accepted by different software development groups. Hybrid installation for on-prem runners and SaaS hosted UI allowed us to keep our data internal while getting updates and product improvements with no upgrades on our part. Docker containers with each step gives granular control of software version for the task. Integrations with Kubernetes allow for complete CI/CD with native steps and less scripting. Really liked the CLI capabilities in addition to intuitive user interface. Support has been amazingly responsive and is invested in our success. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Not much to dislike. It is a growing product in the landscape of CI/CD so it not the first product to come to mind for an evaluation. With some research, it quickly moves to the top of a product comparison list with more established tools. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Face it, Jenkins has been around forever has not changed. Plugin collisions are a problem and as different software teams are converged into a CI tool, it becomes difficult to maintain. Codefresh has a Docker container for each step so software teams use the version they need to build and test their application. In addition, we were able to create our own runtime Docker containers to avoid constantly installing exact versions of packages to prep each build environment. Build times are shorter, teams are making pipeline changes faster, and our full pipeline of tools are all integrated: source control, CI server, artifact management, deploy targets. ### 10. Works well most of the time **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edgar R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Lots of freedom to define steps in a pipeline, easy to create alerts, good integrations (github, slack). Can reuse pipeline definitions through YAML specs. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Occasional failures can interrupt vital CI/CD pipelines. Sometimes steps fail without a clear cause, restarting them seems to work but false negatives can cause distraction. **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** A definite improvement over a self-hosted automation solution. Lots of flexibility, good documentation ant out-of-the-box integrations. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD pipelines scale seamlessly. Once you're set up, it's extremely easy to add new projects and different types of pipelines. ### 11. Fun to Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sid S. | Senior Devops Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** The ease in building and using containers. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** The web interface is a little too fast to push you to upgrade to larger instances. **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** Read the documentation on how to structure builds. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to build and test containers for a Kubernetes environment. We implemented easy to understand build scripts. ### 12. Amazing support for running pipelines within your private K8s infrastructure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** We have some integration and e2e tests that need to run against our private cloud resources. Codefresh makes it a breeze to deploy this type of pipelines within our private K8s infrastructure, allowing us to access private cloud resources without punching holes in our network. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** We have experienced some UI bugs but have ben solved very fast. **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** None **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seamless integration with private cloud resources. ### 13. Excellent product: Intuitive to use, Reliable and Continuously Improved. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devops L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** - Easy of use - Fits like a glove with k8s **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** - We experienced issues with the product at first (bugs), but the Support team was very responsive and promptly resolved the issues for us. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saved a lot of time and hassle with CI/CD ### 14. Pipeline Automation made right **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Docker first: With every step being a docker container I don't have to worry about the management of worker nodes. Custom Steps: I have 3 right now which have been extremely valuable in that I don't have to update 30 pipelines when I made a simple change to them. The custom steps support versioning too. Pipeline Debugger: I love being able to add breakpoints to a pipeline! Extremely valuable when I'm writing a new pipeline. I don't have to run what I know is going to be a busted pipeline dozens of times to get it right. Thorough Documentation: The Codefresh team is very diligent with keeping documentation up-to-date. All of the documentation is available on GitHub and you can send them a PR should you find something that is out of sorts. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Pricing: The current pricing for small, medium, large instances per concurrent build is a bit steep. Support: can be a little hit or miss in regards to time to resolution Limited macOS support: macOS builds have been in beta for 5 months, I signed up for the beta when it was announced and I'm still waiting **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** There's no good reason to not give it a try. The perceived high cost is ultimately worth it. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the exception of our mobile application (due to not being accepted to the beta yet), all of our project pipelines are being executed in Codefresh. The integration with GitHub makes achieving the goals of "GitOps" relatively pain-free. ### 15. Fabulous experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavel S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** High-quality support service with an extremely professional attitude **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** I would like to see more features like support for custom manifests on Kubernetes or Ingress support **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** Best choice for modern Devops engineers **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI, CD container registry, helm charts as well as Kubernetes management. Friendly UI and "one-stop-shop in general". ### 16. Great product with great support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** The product speaks for itself as far as reliability, name recognition and quality. What really sets them apart for me is the hasty response time from support when our company needs something. Has been nothing but a pleasure to work with. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Nothing comes to mind in regards to negative commentary. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Their assistance in our CI/CD pipeline projects as well as help with any Docker related issues has helped a lot. ### 17. A Solid CI/CD Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** The code is, and I do not say this lightly, very fresh, and thus delivers on the name. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** There is nothing that I could say that I dislike about CodeFresh, it's my reason for going to bed and night and my reason for getting up in the morning, it is my muse and it is my flame. What could be better? **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** Just do it **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a solid CI/CD platform. ### 18. Critical to our development process **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Our pipeline gives us the ability to quickly and automatically create PR environments so features can be easily tested by our QA engineers. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Currently we only have an allowance of 2 parallel builds which can sometimes mean that builds get delayed. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Codefresh gives us a robust and repeatable pipeline that performs building, testing and deployment for our web applications. This has lead to a much cleaner deployment process for our apps and increased our efficiency as developers. ### 19. Awesome easy to see builds and stages in real time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Build steps, easy configuration files and implementation **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** SSO Login with other button and without to say to push it **Recommendations to others considering Codefresh:** Easy build steps, configuration and implementation **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Builds for code review and testing ### 20. Codefresh is the first CI/CD platform built for Kubernetes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** It is easy to setup my Kubernetes pipeline on Codefresh **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** The free version is limited. but other than that it's awesome! **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** The need of managing your docker images ## Codefresh Discussions - [How can we speed up a heavy build?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/24173-how-can-we-speed-up-a-heavy-build) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is Codefresh open source?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-codefresh-open-source) - 1 comment - [Is Codefresh free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-codefresh-free) - 1 comment - [View Codefresh pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/octopus-deploy-codefresh/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-17+23%3A11%3A58+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d7f19d62-89e8-43e3-a878-a1a382f39b0f&secure%5Btoken%5D=e0c40802fe2aedbeeb6e2dc19f7ae9aef8a66a6bab0be4157a3e2fd327185943&format=llm_user) ## Codefresh Features **Administration** - Configuration Management - Access Control - Dashboards **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Bug Reporting** - User Reports & Feedback - Tester Reports & Feedback - Team Reports & Comments **Management** - Configuration Management - Access Control - Orchestration **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Functionality** - Deployment Automation - Process Analytics - Plugins - APIs / Integrations - Feature Flags **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Bug Monitoring** - Analytics - Bug History - Data Retention **Functionality** - Automation - Integrations - Extensibility **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Processes** - Pipelines - Orchestration - Workflow Visualization **Processes** - Pipeline Control - Workflow Visualization - Continuous Deployment **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Bug Tracking** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Codefresh Alternatives - [CircleCI](https://www.g2.com/products/circleci/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (499 reviews) - [Harness Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/harness-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (300 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (557 reviews)