--- title: Octopus Deploy Reviews meta_title: 'Octopus Deploy Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 58 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Octopus Deploy works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 58 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-04' parent_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # Octopus Deploy Reviews **Vendor:** Octopus Deploy **Category:** [Continuous Delivery Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-delivery-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 58 ## About Octopus Deploy Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery (CD), empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Globally, more than 4,000 organizations rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions to deliver swift value to their customers. At Octopus, we create happy deployments, and by extension, happy software teams. Founded in 2012, our vision is for all software teams to look forward to deployment time; to be excited about seeing their changes deployed and used by their customers. We want them to deploy more and more frequently, and to feel 100% confident it will just work. Octopus efficiently orchestrates software delivery across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, data centers, and hybrid environments, whether containerized modern apps or heritage applications. With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at its core, Octopus supports Platform Engineering teams in their mission to provide a superior developer experience (DevEx). Octopus also actively contributes to the developer community with open-source projects. - Effortless scaling - Deploy consistently, quickly, and without duplicating effort to thousands of locations or customers. Tenants let you use one deployment process for thousands of customers. See all your deployments at a glance on a single dashboard. - Faster deployments - Deploy faster and more frequently to thousands of application hosts. Use one deployment process consistently across environments. Reduce time between build and deployment by automatically promoting releases. Use the deployment strategy that works for you, like rolling, blue/green, or canary. - Reduce risk - Reduce deployment failure rate and mean time to recovery with automation built-in. Step timeouts and retries reduce manual intervention, while guided failure mode lets you keep deployments moving when needed. Our Insights feature reveals your DevOps performance and areas that need attention based on the 4 key DORA metrics. - Improve DevEx - Simple deployments empower teams and let developers focus on building new features. Create processes easily with our friendly UI and over 500 step templates, or use command lines and scripts. Runbooks automate routine and emergency operations tasks, freeing your teams for more crucial work. - Increase security - Built-in, flexible features to manage your security and compliance requirements. Use role-based access control (RBAC) to limit what users can do in Octopus. Configure ITSM approvals and OpenID Connect with popular providers for secure, compliant deployments. Handle complex software delivery at any scale with Octopus Deploy. ## Octopus Deploy Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Octopus Deploy, thanks to its intuitive interface and clear documentation. (5 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless deployment process** of Octopus Deploy, which simplifies management and enhances reliability. (4 reviews) - Users value the **deployment efficiency** of Octopus Deploy, enjoying seamless, reliable, and easy-to-manage deployments. (4 reviews) - Users value the **deployment automation** of Octopus Deploy, enabling consistent, repeatable, and error-reducing release management. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless deployment process** of Octopus Deploy, making complex deployments easy and reliable. (3 reviews) - Users value the **easy deployment** capabilities of Octopus Deploy, enabling consistent and efficient application management across environments. (3 reviews) - User Interface (3 reviews) - Users value the **versatility** of Octopus Deploy for managing complex deployments effortlessly across multiple platforms. (3 reviews) - Users value the **powerful automation features** of Octopus Deploy, enhancing consistency and efficiency in their deployment processes. (2 reviews) - Users value the **automation efficiency** of Octopus Deploy, which streamlines complex deployments and reduces errors significantly. (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Octopus Deploy to be **expensive** , especially after changes in pricing models affecting small teams and non-profits. (4 reviews) - Users express concerns about **high costs and recent pricing changes** , particularly impacting not-for-profit organizations. (3 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , with complex setups overwhelming for newcomers and advanced features requiring extensive knowledge. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex interface** overwhelming, especially when setting up deployment pipelines and managing large projects. (1 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve overwhelming** , with complex setups making it challenging for new users to adapt. (1 reviews) - Complex Setup (1 reviews) - Confusing Interface (1 reviews) - Delayed Processes (1 reviews) - Users express concern over **delay issues** during deployments, affecting reliability and overall user experience. (1 reviews) - Deployment Issues (1 reviews) ## Octopus Deploy Reviews ### 1. Brilliant lightweight tool, with some drawbacks **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guy T. | Software Engineer, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Ease of maintaining multiple tentacles to deploy to as well as crafting suitable retention policies for previous builds and releases. Support is reactive and helpful. Constant improvements from version to version with the developers seemingly very attentive to user feedback. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** The log access and visualisation leaves something to be desired, there's a lot of noise sometimes making it hard to find the root cause of issues. In versions 3.X and lower RavenDB as the artifact management database can cause issues when reaching certain scales. Documentation is occasionally lacking in detail. Monitoring of the core server is not the simplest. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** If looking for .NET continuous deployment strategies Octopus provides a great, constantly improving, solution with a variety of useful features for powerful administration. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous deployment of .NET projects to a large inventory of Windows VMs. Simple retention of previous release artifacts to allow for easy rollback. ### 2. Quick, fast and easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam E. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** The simplicity of using it, previously it was primarily devs and release services that had to deploy, now anyone in the pod can do it. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** How target roles get clogged up from other releases, holding up simple tasks such as flowdock messages. We new to have a clear definition of what roles should be used for what. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Give it a go and see if it works for you. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed of releasing. Keeping releases small and moving fast. ### 3. No other product really compares for Automated Deployment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark W. | Senior Developer, Market Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Easy of use mainly. It took me about 40 minutes to configure a deployment across 3 environments. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** It can seem overwhelming at times because there are so many features. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** If you can afford it, there is no better product. We are able to deploy to a scalable infrastructure. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a way to deploy software securely to our servers. We didn't want developers to be involved in that process and wanted complete, fully automation. ### 4. We have been using this for 2 years now. Been easy for us. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** The Octopus process has minimized our production issues. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** The learning curve for it was difficult at first. But after one or two training classes on it, everything is running smoothly so far. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Better configuration of Alerts. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We would always compare code between two versions before. The old code and the new code, make sure everything is in the right place after merging. Now that does not happen. Also if there is a critical issue in production we can easily reverse the process and get a previous version. ### 5. Simple and Easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Octopus Deploy is a simple but very useful tool that makes it easy to deploy our projects. It has a simple clean interface and works constantly. Perfect for organizations that collaborate. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** It can be slow at times. Larger projects take upwards of ten minutes to deploy. Also can take a few minutes to detect changes. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using this tool to automate our build process and track our deployed versions on dev and production sites. ### 6. Production deployments at Xero **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Ease of use, simplified process significantly, anyone can deploy. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Would love a way to lock down a deployment setup that requires two people to authorise a change. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saved time, increased efficiency and lead to a more frequent release cycle. ### 7. Use to deploy software fronm TFS. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2016 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** So much easier than Harvest. Our legacy deployer. Web UI works pretty well, is fairly intuitive. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Only supposed to be for .net budget packages, we have to use for everything (java, angular spa, static media) **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Would recommend a more generic deploy tool. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft doesn't have a good deploy tool and our company is too ignorant to use a mainstream deploy tool that works with multiple technologies. ### 8. Great tool for automated deploy **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2015 **What do you like best about Octopus Deploy?** Easy to configure the whole process of deployment, and the UI becomes more and more friendly. **What do you dislike about Octopus Deploy?** Setting variables are very tedious. Literally we have to type in every variable one by one manually if we want to setup a local Octopus server as a developer. **Recommendations to others considering Octopus Deploy:** Good tool for automated deployment purpose. But the related command line tool is not good enough to immigrate your project between different Octopus servers. **What problems is Octopus Deploy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated delivery. ## Octopus Deploy Discussions - [Is Octopus Deploy a CI tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-octopus-deploy-a-ci-tool) - 1 comment - [View Octopus Deploy pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/octopus-deploy/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-06+13%3A52%3A18+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=431fb71e-9092-4778-9b8d-ac75ccd6c345&secure%5Btoken%5D=a7a6d9f64bbd22fabbe80a5ef50ee3a78f5acf0050ff767a346733397c8e3439&format=llm_user) ## Octopus Deploy Integrations - [AWS Auto Scaling](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-auto-scaling/reviews) - [Azure Pipelines](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-pipelines/reviews) ## Octopus Deploy Features **Additional Functionality** - Widgets - Impact Management - Customizable Forms - Self Service Portal - License Management - Scheduled/Automated Reports - Task Management - Request Assignment - Help Desk Management - Surveys & Feedback - SSL Security - IT Asset Tracking - Knowledge Base Management - Compliance Management - Support Ticket Management - Single Sign On - Data Mapping - Client Portal - Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management - Activity Dashboard - Incident Management - Alerts/Escalation - Prioritization - Generative AI - Performance Monitoring - Email Management - Active Directory Integration - Third-Party Integrations - Alerts/Notifications - Collaboration Tools - Reporting & Statistics - Asset Lifecycle Management - Inventory Management - Data Import/Export - Access Controls/Permissions - Drag & Drop - Activity Tracking - AI Copilot - Workflow Management - Configuration Management - Problem Management - Configurable Workflow - IT Asset Management - API - Data Visualization - Change Management - Device Auto Discovery - Customizable Reports - Contract/License Management - Relationship Mapping - Customizable Fields - Support Ticket Tracking - Vulnerability Scanning - Data Aggregation and Publishing - Cost Tracking - Template Management - Lifecycle Management - Historical Reporting - Monitoring - Configuration Automation - Customizable Templates - Search/Filter - File Management - Status Tracking - Patch Management - Document Management - Real-Time Reporting - Real-Time Monitoring - Version Control - Task Progress Tracking - IT Cost Management - Archiving & Retention - Scheduling - Reporting/Analytics - User Management - Policy Management - Real-Time Analytics - Role-Based Permissions - Rules-Based Workflow - Audit Trail - Business Process Automation - Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance - Task Scheduling **Administration** - Configuration Management - Access Control - Dashboards **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Automation Support - Runbook Automation** - Common Tool Integration - Scripting Language Support - Routine Task Automation - Automated Task Notifications **Functionality** - Deployment Automation - Process Analytics - Plugins - APIs / Integrations - Feature Flags **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Error Management - Runbook Automation** - Runbook Procedure Updates - Recovery Options - Error Management in Automation **Processes** - Pipelines - Orchestration - Workflow Visualization **Customization - Runbook Automation** - Runbook Customization - Workflow Customization - Incident Response Customization **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Additional Functionality** - Continuous Deployment - Source-Code Scanning - Continuous Delivery - Prioritization - Generative AI - Compliance Management - Data Import/Export - Access Controls/Permissions - Bug Tracking - Reporting/Analytics - For Developers - Issue Management - Repository Management - Workflow Management - Monitoring - Pipeline Management - Application Management - API - AI Copilot - Configuration Management - Data Storage Management - Multi-User Collaboration - Project Management - Version Control - Activity Dashboard - Data Synchronization - Lifecycle Management - Change Management - Status Tracking - Authentication - Alerts/Notifications - Automated Testing - Debugging - Approval Process Control - Build Log - Quality Assurance **Compliance and Reporting - Runbook Automation** - Security Management - Compliance Standards Adherence - Reporting and Auditing **Performance - Runbook Automation** - Self-Service for Non-IT Staff - Team Collaboration Enhancement - Load Handling Performance **Agentic AI - Runbook Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Octopus Deploy Alternatives - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (369 reviews) - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,332 reviews) - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (884 reviews)