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Bamboo vs Depot comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Bamboo
Ranking in Build Automation
12th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Depot
Ranking in Build Automation
25th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Bamboo is 4.4%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Depot is 0.5%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Build Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Bamboo4.4%
Depot0.5%
Other95.1%
Build Automation
 

Featured Reviews

Christo Louw - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Automation has streamlined build and deployment workflows and provides clear project reporting
Regarding improvements for Bamboo, I can't think of anything right now. Bamboo is serving the purpose that we needed it for. I would say pipelines for model building could be an area of focus. However, I can't really comment on that because I haven't looked at Bamboo to assist with machine learning pipelines. If they haven't focused on building MLOps pipelines, that's definitely an area where they could assist businesses. I haven't looked at what Bamboo offers for MLOps, so it's possible that they've already built in features. Machine learning and AI are in big demand at the moment. If they haven't focused too much on MLOps, that's probably where they can improve.
RS
Senior Technical Lead at HCLSoftware
Managing complex code branches has been challenging but has improved team collaboration
Depot needs improvement as it was stable but also very slow. Depot's slow speed arises when we perform different integrations. On the positive side, it provides mono-repo scalability, meaning it can handle multiple users at any given time without crashing, which is a strong point. Depot should be improved for remote work because it functions poorly in that regard. Depot's branching style is also poor and could be improved. There is a steep learning curve that makes it difficult for people who previously worked on decentralized systems to adapt. It would be beneficial if Depot could become more similar to Git.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system, and the fact that it's integrated within Oracle products and can manage statutory people in our organization, with features and functionality that are all huge selling points."
"We use Bamboo to automate all our test builds and deployments. It integrates with tools like the ReportPortal to help us check and evaluate processes. When we initiate commands, it automatically checks for scaling issues or failures related to new code. Based on these evaluations, it provides reports in the ReportPortal, helping us decide whether to implement changes."
"Thanks to Bamboo we are able to build changes made by development quite quickly and allow them to deploy to our internal environments when needed (as well as automated during the night)."
"The technical support provided by Atlassian is very good."
"Bamboo, along with its integrated deployment and release pipeline, enabled us to go from a monolithic, once a month release cycle, with many post-release incidents to an on-demand, push-button release strategy where we deployed over 200 times a month with very few to no release-related incidents."
"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."
"It can do the CI pipeline well."
"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work; we have many Atlassian products, including Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and other Atlassian plugins, and we like that it's easy to integrate them with each other as a suite of services."
"Depot has positively impacted my organization in an awesome way, and the fact that I can save time gives me the possibility to have more clients during the day, saving at least 20% each day because of Depot."
"Depot has positively impacted our organization by ensuring that everything works fully, which makes other clients really happy."
"Depot has positively impacted my organization by helping us manage our code better where multiple developers are working on the system."
 

Cons

"While the community may grow over time, please ensure your current/future processes are not hindered by Bamboo's faults."
"The tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."
"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."
"Bamboo can improve by providing more with scripting, such as they have with Jenkins. Bamboo is more UI-driven at this time, Jenkins is going in that direction too."
"One of our enterprise customers were not satisfied with the scalability of the solution."
"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"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."
"From my personal experience regarding scalability and the ability to scale, I find that sometimes the agents run out of resources and then it takes quite a while to get additional infrastructure."
"Depot is a useful tool and there is space for improvement, but I can't figure out what can be done, which is why I chose eight out of ten."
"However, they need improvement with older servers due to storage space issues, which prevents me from giving a perfect score of ten."
"Depot needs improvement as it was stable but also very slow."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."
"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."
"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
44%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise10
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Bamboo?
Regarding improvements for Bamboo, I can't think of anything right now. Bamboo is serving the purpose that we needed it for. I would say pipelines for model building could be an area of focus. Howe...
What is your primary use case for Bamboo?
My current use case for Bamboo is not as active as it once was. The team that I worked for still uses it, but I don't work on it as much anymore. Basically, Bamboo is used for CI/CD pipelines to bu...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Depot?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Depot, I have faced many challenges with cost optimization. We need to manage what services we can use and optimize the cost, whi...
What needs improvement with Depot?
There are many things I wish were different or better about Depot. There is a lot to improve in the product's functionality, especially regarding the use cases of Kubernetes. The provider is develo...
What is your primary use case for Depot?
My main use case for Depot is for automation purposes across my whole workflow, so I can use Depot in my day-to-day tasks. Depot is really useful for automation purposes throughout the entire flow.
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Neocleus, MuleSoft, Interspire
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