# CircleCI Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is CircleCI the right Automated Testing solution for you? Explore 92 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/reviews --- CircleCI 4.6 (92) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of CircleCI Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.4 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews MS Manon S Associate software engineerComputer Software, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It's automation for testing and deployment is fantastic.“ August 3, 2024 MS Manon S Associate software engineerComputer Software, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It took me a while to get my build scripts working correctly the first time.“ August 3, 2024 NT Nikhil Kumar T Software EngineerComputer Software, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It's inexpensiveness is the main attraction but also along with that CircleCi provides tons of other helpful features as well you can share the test logs via email as well.“ February 6, 2023 Tushar B Platform EngineerBanking, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Another one would be the execution time, using it with terraform to run plans & eventually apply, it can take hours if your infrastructure is complex & there is no way to actually divide it in stages.“ October 6, 2022 YR Yeamin R Senior DevOps EngineerHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The codability of CircleCI makes it very useful as we can checkout the \`circleci/config.yaml\` in our VCS and peer review is possible.“ April 19, 2022 JK Jeffrey K Engineering ManagerInternet, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “I think the configuration language is not that great to use and can quickly get unwieldy for larger CI workflows (especially when repeating jobs with different parameters).“ May 6, 2022 Tushar B Platform EngineerBanking, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “For beginners or pros, this workflow management tool is pretty simple yet futuristic.“ October 6, 2022 JK Jeffrey K Engineering ManagerInternet, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The Docker in Docker paradigm doesn't work for us since we use containers.“ May 6, 2022 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 92 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Luis Carlos C. Data Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good for CI/CD and also for automating smaller tasks" March 24, 2022 5.0 We use CircleCI for our CI/CD pipeline almost every single day. It manages and runs automated tests for all the remote branches, so we can catch issues before they escalate. When ever something gets merged into our dev, staging or master branches, it auto tests, builds and deploy all the infrastructure with Terraform and pushes the newer version to docker. Pros The pipelines can be broken into different steps, which makes debugging, managing and approving individual phases way easier. Also, looking at the logs and being able to share static permalinks to them is quite useful when you have larger teams. We all can see the progress of the building pipelines in real time and can debug and manage them. Great tool over all. Cons Sometimes it fails and doesn't immediately let's you go to debug the issue. Also, some settings for the VMs are tricky to set up right. Alternatives considered [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Review Source RU Ricardo U. Team Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simple and strong software" October 30, 2024 5.0 Really good, is one of the small things on the pipelines and projects, that when it uses other solution, I miss the simplicity that circleci provides Pros I like that is really easy to use, for multiple platforms, easy solutions, good support lot of info, and if you know simple bash commands is really easy to build your own pipeline Cons Sometimes the UI is not perfect, but their are updating it and lastly it improved a lot Switched from [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) we wanted a cloud solution that was able to run also mobile builds Review Source Carey W. Chief Information Security Officer Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Easy-to-use UI and features for configuring the CI" March 30, 2022 3.0 We deploy in the form of a circle. Since it was already in place when I began working here, I can't speak to how things were before, but I can say that it makes things much simpler for newcomers to the organization. Pros Excellent customer service, and now even faster builds Workflows 2.0 makes it simple for me to parallelize tasks. Simple integration with code-quality services like GitHub. If necessary, it can be built on macOS. Cons Nothing of significance to point out. It's a little messy with reduced resolutions if we go to a project and filter it by Branch Name. On a mobile device or a browser tab, for example. Except for that, everything else is fine. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Platform Engineer Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CircleCI - For Simple, Easy & feature rich CI/CD" October 6, 2022 5.0 Overall I love CircleCI UI, ease of deployment & it is feature rich. Availability & execution parameterization can be improved. Pros Best part of circleCI is the ease of continuous delivery feature it offers, it's very easy to integrate it with GitHub too. Another pro of CircleCI over other CI/CD tool like Jenkins is the simple yet feature rich UI. For beginners or pros, this workflow management tool is pretty simple yet futuristic. It also makes running automated test cases for different branches really easy before deployment. Cons There is room for improvement in areas where Jenkins is already winning, like skipping parts of execution stages that are not required every time new change is pushed. Another one would be the execution time, using it with terraform to run plans & eventually apply, it can take hours if your infrastructure is complex & there is no way to actually divide it in stages. Better central monitoring & dashboard for different projects can be helpful, somewhat like Jenkins shows rainy, cloudy or clear skies signifying project health. Alternatives considered [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Reason for choosing CircleCI Better UI, reviews & average cost. Futuristic & continuous development is there from the team. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the top CI/CD service" August 5, 2021 5.0 Pros With a Github/Bitbucket account, it is easy to setup the CircleCI account. It automatically detects all the repositories. We can easily add the configuration file and start using the pipelines. Various customisation and parallelisation options are provided. Lot of possibilities for automation and customisation. Overall a good product. Cons It was bit of a hassle to start first, the configuration were not very easy. Also struggled a bit to manage various Github organisations. Once easy and setup, it's easy and fast. Switched from [Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/) Wanted to try CircleCI. But Travis seems to be more easy to configure opensource repositories. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Head of Engineering Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Simple & efficient CI" May 5, 2023 4.0 Migrations was easy and straightforward. It works well. We were a bit startled because of the security issue they faced and we had to renew all of the secrets which was painful. Apart from that incident, we're happy. It's never been down for us (as opposed to Github). Pros The setup of pipelines is very easy, especially with the orbs. Each pipeline is always code, so it's automatically versioned. We moved away from CodePipelines from AWS because it was too click-intensive. Cons The permissions are simple: everything is copied from GitHub in our case. What seems at first convenient ends up quite confusing. And it's easy to get lost with security contexts. It would have been nice to be able to see who can perform what action from the Circle CI UI itself. Alternatives considered [Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/)[GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/)[Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Reason for choosing CircleCI It was well established, simple, and seemed to integrate well with Github. Review Source TI Tahmidul I. CTO E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great once you're all set up" September 29, 2020 4.0 Pros \- Easy to understand yaml config format - Integration with GitHub - Workflows for powerful deployment and release strategies - Good community support Cons \- I am not the biggest fan of the recent UI update. If the "expand" toggle is set to true, everything jumps resulting in me clicking things unintentionally. - Many of us have workflows that we do not use on every push (e.g. deploying to testing). With the next UI changes, the UI has a timer column which is always updating, why??? - Why can't I select a default project? When I now browse to circleci, I always have to select a project. Most developers only ever work on one project at a time, let us choose one! Alternatives considered [GitHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/) Reason for choosing CircleCI GitHub actions did not support click to approve workflows at the time. Although, now they do offer a viable solution, it may be something we look into. Review Source OO Ogaga O. Security Analyst Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Continuous Integration and Deployment made easy" October 23, 2021 5.0 Pros It's easy to integrate most of the industry products with CircleCI, including tools used for Quality and Security. You only need some level of programming to get through the integration process. It works well for our model and we do not need the full DevOps suite to use Circle CI Cons There is nothing to dislike about this product. Alternatives considered [Bitbucket](https://www.capterra.com/p/233341/Bitbucket/) Switched from [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Jenkins was having a lot of complications integrating with newer industry tools and some members of the team were not comfortable using Jenkins. Review Source Dylan C. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A very capable CI system with a lot of quality of life features " January 5, 2024 5.0 Pros CircleCI is very fast, reliable, and has a very slick UI. I like how easily it integrated with our version control system and how simply we could build useful automations into our pipeline. Cons Although it has a decent free offering, as with most CI's, CircleCI's pricing scales quite quickly once you leave the free tier. Review Source Petr V. CTO Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Battle tested and well documented" September 29, 2020 4.0 Satisfied ;) Pros One of the market leaders. You can bet it is going to be here for at least next few years and your one off implementation and deployment of this service will do for long time without ay significant change and it will serve you reliably. Cons For some not\_totaly\_standartd deployments or integrations it is (as many similar products) a bit tricky. But thanks to the huge community you can find some solution for pretty much everything quite quickly. Alternatives considered [Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/) Review Source MS Manon S. Associate software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Seamless Continuous Integration" August 3, 2024 5.0 Pros It's automation for testing and deployment is fantastic. It saved me a lot of time by running tests automatically after every code push. Cons It took me a while to get my build scripts working correctly the first time. Review Source DG Donovan G. Head of QA Printing Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great, easy to use CI tool" August 13, 2021 5.0 Overall it is great. It is fast, reliable, and easy to use. Just the tactics on how they handle customers are something that is lacking. Pros It is so simple to set up, run, manage and maintain. It gives really fast feedback and is so versatile. This should be the standard way of doing automated pipelines. Cons For some of the pretty common things, like iOS app builds the costs escalate very quickly. Also, their sales team is very aggressive in how they push for upgrades, to the point of removing key items being used in the pipelines to force upgrades. Alternatives considered [GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/) Switched from [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) It is so much better Review Source RW Robert W. Producer Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best in class continuous integration" June 6, 2022 5.0 My go-to on every SAAS product. Delivers the goods everytime. Pros It is incredibly easy to get started, you can be integrated in hours and from then on its a consistent reliable platform for all your CI needs. Cons As test suites grow and parallelization becomes important it can get awfully expensive. I still use it on every project but I was at a prior company where we racked up bills in the thousands a month without really trying for not that big a product. This was definitely due to some poor planning but CircleCI makes it easy to land yourself in that kind of situation if you're not careful. Alternatives considered [GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Engineer Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best CI I've ever used" June 28, 2017 4.0 Pros \-Docker support is great when using container based builds -Competitive pricing and free tier -Snappy / Responsive UI Cons \-2.0 is missing features in 1.0 -Poor slack notification support -yml format is strange. More complex commands can be very ugly Review Source AB Andy B. Head of Engineering Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy continuous build and deployment system" April 30, 2021 4.0 We have automated unit testing, deployment and managing pipelines so no one has to do it manually. Pros Easy to manage pipelines and deployment to multiple servers and to manage versions from GitHub. Easy to restart pipelines or particular deployments. Cons New UI feels less intuitive than the old one, but does work well. Sometimes errors can be hard to track down, but think that may be our configuration / setup rather than CircleCI itself. Review Source MR Michal R. Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "CircleCI CI/CD " September 26, 2020 4.0 It automates many repetitive tasks such as running the tests, building and deployment to various environments and it makes my life easier. Pros I am using CircleCI within many projects and I like it - its feature-rich, supports every usecase we need and from my perspective is absolutely sufficient as CI/CD tool for projects I was working on. It also has free plan which could be enough for smaller teams or projects. Cons Not very often, but still, sometimes an inexplicable black magic happens and it requires a bit of debugging and reconfiguring of the project or the CircleCI. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CTO Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A nice CI Tools" November 14, 2022 4.0 Pros Circle CI is a very nice CI tools, especially if you need to build on Apple devices Cons It's a bit pricy regarding other service that can be opensource Review Source LS Luis S. Software Engineer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Using CircleCI " December 4, 2019 4.0 It has been a good experience overall, very minor downtimes. It has really helped me and our team to perform continious integration for our projects. Pros It let's you automate continuos integration fairly easy by just using a YML file. You can setup many different stages and rules for these stages to have different development environments. It's fairly easy to learn and implement. It integrates very well with Github. Cons Have seen a few downtimes in the last couple of months. Review Source PJ Piyush J. Software Engineer Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "One of the best CI tools available" July 18, 2017 5.0 Full customization and scripting abilities. Using tools like bash scripts, SSH, and Node, running almost anything upon committing some code to GitHub becomes possible. Integration with all of our favorite services. GitHub and Slack in particular are crucial to our business and CircleCI's integration is seamless and full-featured. Pros Easy to configure via a YAML file Sends email notifications without the use of external services Not only runs our tests, but also triggers our deployments Cons Proactive communication about updates and breaking changes Questions to account rep can sometimes take too long (for us -- > 1 day) to respond Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Intelligence Developer Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "FIrst time using a CI tool, and CircleCI delivers!" February 7, 2021 5.0 CircleCI brings a lot of security to our code deployment workflow: running unit and integration tests, and code analysis such as linters, it's a godsent. Pros This is my first experience using a CI software tool, and it's AMAZING. Tools that automate the workflow of code deployment gives a lot of Cons Not too much of a problem, but there's somewhat of a learning curve to set up your environment. Took me a few days to educate myself in the specifics, such as caching, jobs, workers etc. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Introduced Circle CI 2.0 (Beta)" September 21, 2017 5.0 Pros \- Workflows is great tool for enabling parallel tasks - deep customization for cache controls - easily introduced deploy workflows Cons \- config file tends to get verbose and too long ( I want to have some ways to separate concerns among some jobs) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good UI and easy to use build system" August 1, 2018 5.0 Pros Compared to some other build systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI has a much better, more modern UI. It's easy to do the most common tasks, such as check on a failed build, or restart a build. Cons Some setup tasks involved in creating a build or modifying its configuration could be easier, but this was never a hindrance to me using the app. Review Source HS Harmandeep S. Software Engineer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "CircleCI for build/deployment" April 25, 2018 4.0 Pros It helps me to analyze all build quickly in real time. It is pretty simple to configure, setup and use. It has a pretty good integration with various remote repositories and it can run tests and give you results. Cons The learning curve is steep for some developers. It has two versions of the software, which sometimes makes it difficult to manage. Review Source KŻ Karol Ż. Owner Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Simple and good integrated with GitHub tool for CI/CD" October 13, 2022 4.0 In general works and do it's job in small, experimental projects. Pros Easy to start, good integration with GitHub, free for small and open-source projects. Cons The pricing is a bit higher compared to its competitors. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good and solid product" September 15, 2017 5.0 Pros Support for OSX environment and Docker platform, very fast builds, advanced cache, up to date software. Web UI is not so bad, but i love the simplicity and configuration possibilities, that eg. Semaphore CI provides Review Source Similar Products Featured