Bamboo vs CircleCI vs Jenkins comparison

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We performed a comparison between Bamboo, CircleCI, and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Bamboo is 5.0%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CircleCI is 3.3%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 9.1%, down from 11.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Jenkins	9.1%
Bamboo	5.0%
CircleCI	3.3%
Other	82.6%

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Andrea Carella

DevOps Engineer at Politecnico di Milano

High availability, helpful support, and plenty of plugins available

I have used Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS for implementing Bamboo. It is not difficult to complete. The length of time it takes for deployment depends on a lot of variables, such as how the pipeline is deployed and what type of infrastructure is present. However, it typically takes only hours not days. I rate the setup of Bamboo a nine out of ten.

Unhelpful support, unclear billing, and has offers ability to track usage

reviewer0972521

Chief Technology Officer at Kyberlife

We've had occasional connectivity issues with cloud resources and build failure due to its own internal system setup and environment. That costs us credits. Support engineers do not thoroughly read and understand issues when emailing them. They reply to me with a totally different context about the problem. Just yesterday, my web applications failed to 'yarn build' after I downgraded the resource class from extr-large to large. I contacted support and got no reply. Billing is a mess. There is duplicate information in the bill downloaded from their website and when I asked for a consolidated bill, they just answered that they didn't have it. There is no transparency on how many billed minutes and credits I spent each day both on their website and the monthly bill which makes it difficult to understand when the monthly bill contains many refill item charges. It is difficult or impossible to track usage and burndown of my subscription and to gain total outstanding refill amounts on a daily basis. Their website doesn't provide sufficient information on credits allocated/calculated for my extra-large resource class.

Streamlined CI/CD pipelines with powerful integration and an easy setup

Annamalai Pts

DevOps Engineer at Tech Mahindra Limited

I use Jenkins as a CI/CD tool. We create pipelines using Jenkins, with stages for Maven builds, Docker image builds, SonarQube integration, and deploying the image to a Kubernetes cluster, AWS EKS Jenkins has made the developers' work very easy. They commit to the remote repository, and…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The tool is useful for continuous deployment."

"It can do the CI pipeline well."

"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."

"One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo, is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system."

"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."

"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."

"Bamboo was used extensively in our organization for PCA compliance."

"One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing."

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"Enables us to detect exactly which build failed and why, and to push multiple builds to our production environment at a very fast rate."

"The solution offers continuous integration and continuous delivery."

"The automation workflow in CircleCI related to third-party applications is very good and allows standardization of applications."

"Some of the most valuable features include container-based builds, integration with Bit Bucket and being able to store artifacts."

"The ability to automate the build process in a seamless way and run workflows effortlessly. It supports parallel builds so it can scale well. Also, it covers the basics of any build and integration tool, including email notifications (especially when tests are fixed), project insights, etc."

"It's a stable product."

"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its open source."

"The most valuable aspect of Jenkins is pipeline customization. Jenkins provides a declarative pipeline as well as a scripted pipeline. The scripted pipeline uses a programming language. You can customize it to your needs, so we use Jenkins because other solutions like Travis and Spinnaker don't allow much customization."

"Configuration management: It is so easy to configure a Jenkins instance. Migrate configuration to a new environment just by copying XML files and setting up new nodes."

"It has a lot of community posts and support."

"Automation of chores like deployment, frequent manual tasks (like running scripts on test and production systems) reduced the time used and the number of errors made by engineers, freeing them to do meaningful work instead."

"Jenkins' most valuable feature is Pipeline."

"Jenkins is a CI/CD tool and is the most robust tool."

"The deployment of traditional Jenkins is easy."

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Cons

"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."

"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."

"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."

"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."

"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."

"Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them."

"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."

"Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall short compared to others. Initially, it was difficult for us because the plugins were very limited."

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"Integration with Microsoft Azure is one area for improvement. Azure is growing in its user base, and supports various cloud infrastructure components such as Service Fabric, App Service, etc. Some of Azure’s deployment models (like Kudu) require a steep learning curve, but if CircleCI would come up with such features (deployment to App Service) out of the box, it would be amazing."

"There needs to be some improvement in the user interface of CircleCI."

"The solution’s pricing could be better."

"Billing is a mess."

"The documentation could be more friendly, and more examples of how to use it."

"Improvement-wise, I would want the solution's user interface to be changed for the better. In short, the solution can be made more user-friendly."

"This solution could be improved by removing the storage of unnecessary data such as the history of test deployments that were unsuccessful."

"Jenkins is an open-source solution, and people tend to stay on the same version for a long time. When you look for an answer on Google, you often find something that doesn't relate to your implementation. The plugins are both the aspect of Jenkins and also one of the worst because the plugins can have different versions, so it's hard to figure out how to solve the problems."

"Jenkins is not an easy solution to use and the configuration is not simple. They can improve the solution by adding a graphical interface that is more user-friendly."

"The documentation is not helpful, as it is not user-friendly."

"Adding support for OIDC and internal user databases simultaneously would improve Jenkins."

"I would like to see even more integrations included in the next release."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

"The server products for small teams used to offer excellent pricing. However, Atlassian has since changed the offering and the pricing is more expensive. I do still think the solution offers good value for money."

"I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five."

"If Bamboo could provide more flexibility on pricing, that would help. On the agent side, if you want to increase the number of agents it should be less expensive. If they can provide some better pricing model, it will help, whether we are going to use it or are already using it."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"The price of CircleCI could be less expensive."

"There is no cost. It is open source."

"The open-source version is free, but small companies would not be able to afford the cloud-based version."

"The solution is open source."

"In our company, we do pay for the licensing of the solution."

"This is an open-source solution for the basic features. However, if an organization wishes to include specific functionality, outside of the basic package, there are extra costs involved."

"Some of the add-ons are too expensive."

"Jenkins is an open-source tool."

"It's free software with a big community behind it, which is very good."

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Senior iOS Developer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 27, 2015

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Government

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	9

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	56

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Overview

Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It works great alongside JIRA and Stash providing a fully traceable deployment pipeline.

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CircleCI is a leading platform for automating continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), valued for its capability to manage software updates efficiently. With an easy-to-configure system using YAML files and robust Docker support, CircleCI streamlines backend updates, frontend developments, and mobile app testing across devices. Its parallelism feature and insightful dashboard reduce processing times and improve workflow visibility, respectively, enhancing team collaboration and productivity while maintaining high-quality outputs across development stages.

CircleCI

Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.