Bamboo vs GitLab vs Jenkins comparison

Read 87 GitLab reviews

17,724 Views
3,899 Comparison Views

97% willing to recommend

Read 92 Jenkins reviews

3,369 Views
3,302 Comparison Views

88% willing to recommend

Bamboo

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

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

Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Google, GitHub and others in Build Automation.

To learn more, read our detailed Build Automation Report (Updated: November 2025).

Download the complete report

Build Automation

November 2025

Helped 872,922 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Bamboo is 4.5%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GitLab is 11.1%, down from 16.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 8.4%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
GitLab	11.1%
Jenkins	8.4%
Bamboo	4.5%
Other	76.0%

Build Automation

Featured Reviews

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.

Improved agility and time to market with CI/CD enhancements

Rohit Kesharwani

Manager, Engineering at 7-Eleven

The CI/CD pipelines in GitLab are highly valuable. Another important feature is the single source of repository, allowing efficient repository management and source code management. GitLab provides manageability by allowing us to manage source code effectively through separate repositories. Additionally, GitLab enables the creation of individual CI/CD pipelines for each repository, making software more agile. By integrating GitLab as a DevOps platform, we have enhanced agility, improved our time to market, and different teams can work collaboratively on various projects.

Streamlines the CI/CD process with its user-friendly interface, extensive plugin ecosystem and efficient automation capabilities

AllenUmlas

Engineer at Etisalat

Jenkins is incredibly user-friendly, so I haven't encountered any difficulties using it. It's the only product I've used for automation, but I find it to be very intuitive and effective. Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes. We're leveraging Jenkins to automate tasks related to Telco, particularly in upgrading the manual orchestration. It's a critical tool for streamlining our operations.

More GitLab pricing and cost advice

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

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

"It can do the CI pipeline well."

"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."

"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."

"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."

"The tool is useful for continuous deployment."

"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."

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

More Bamboo pros

"GitLab helps me save time and provide financial benefits, as keeping track of the updated version and the changes is money and time-saving."

"The CI/CD pipeline with Helm has significantly improved deployment speed and efficiency."

"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."

"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."

"The stability is good."

"The solution's service delivery model is fantastic."

"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."

"I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."

More GitLab pros

"The initial setup is simple."

"Jenkins is very user-friendly."

"Jenkins can be used for elastic management, if you have any sensitive data or credentials you can use them across the environment. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and can be used across multiple use cases."

"Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes."

"When we have manual tasks, we have to depend on multiple technical teams. With Jenkins, we can bring all the technologies together by the click of a button. We can see results without having to depend on different teams. Jenkins makes life easy for the database and DevOps teams."

"We use Jenkins to automatically build Python binaries into several OS's i.e. OS X, Ubuntu, Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit."

"Jenkins is stable, user-friendly, and helps with continuous integration. As of today, I can't see any tool that's better than Jenkins."

"A lot of support material exists via a single web search of exactly what you're looking for."

More Jenkins pros

Cons

"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."

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

"The tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."

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

"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."

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

"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."

More Bamboo cons

"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."

"Currently, GitLab is not easy to scale because GitLab has specific deployment instructions. We deploy it on one of the VMs."

"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."

"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."

"GitLab can improve its user interface to make conflict resolution more user-friendly."

"I'm new to GitLab, so I would appreciate more documentation about the code and commands."

"GitLab's UI could be improved."

"GitLab could consider introducing a code-scanning tool. Purchasing such tools from external markets can incur charges, which might not be favorable. Integrating these features into GitLab would streamline the pipeline and make it more convenient for users."

More GitLab cons

"Better and easy-to-use integration with Docker would be an improvement."

"There are some difficulties when we need to execute the DB script."

"And I don't care too much for the Jenkins user interface. It's not that user-friendly compared to other solutions available right now. It's not a great user experience. You can do just fine if you are a techie, but it would take a novice some time to learn it and get things done."

"The user interface could be updated a little."

"Jenkins relies on the old version of interface for configuration management. This needs improvement."

"The user interface could be improved, and its reporting capabilities need enhancement. The plugins could be more effective."

"I would like them to provide space for people to have a central node that stores all the logs of workspace information in a distributed fashion to facilitate backup and restoration. Currently, everything is stored on one node, so you need to set up distributed storage or an endpoint that you can use for backing up your information."

"Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."

More Jenkins cons

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."

"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."

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

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

"In total, I believe we have more than 300 licenses spread over about 100 users, though I can't comment on the costs involved."

"I don't mind the price because I use the free version."

"This is an open-source solution."

"Its price is fine. It is on the cheaper side and not expensive. You have to pay additionally for GitLab CI/CD minutes. Initially, we used the free version. When we ran out of GitLab minutes, we migrated to the paid version."

"GitLab is a free solution to use."

"It seems reasonable. Our IT team manages the licenses."

"The solution's standard license is paid annually. They have changed the pricing model and it used to be better. There is a free version available."

"It is very expensive. We can't bear it now, and we have to find another solution. We have a yearly subscription in which we can increase the number of licenses, but we have to pay at the end of the year."

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

"Jenkins is an open-source tool."

"It could be cheaper because there are many solutions available in the market. We are paying yearly."

"Jenkins is an open-source platform."

"Jenkins is open source and free."

"The solution is one of the lowest costs compared to competitors."

"It is free."

"Jenkins is open source."

More Jenkins pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Build Automation solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

872,922 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Comparison Review

it_user217035

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

May 27, 2015

Bamboo vs. Jenkins

A biased and subjective comparison of Bamboo and Jenkins as CI servers for mobile development, based on practical experience with both. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Delivery, Distribution) has been around for quite a while. But surprisingly enough on a global scale it pretty…

What do you like most about Bamboo?

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Government

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	35
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	42

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

Questions from the Community

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

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bamboo?

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

What needs improvement with Bamboo?

Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall sho...

What do you like most about GitLab?

I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provi...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitLab?

We are currently using general GitLab, not GitLab Premium.

What needs improvement with GitLab?

GitLab needs to improve the CI/CD functionality because it is not compatible with Jenkins and other tools, as it is n...

How does Tekton compare with Jenkins?

When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requi...

What do you like most about Jenkins?

Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jenkins?

Jenkins is used in many companies to save money, especially within R&D divisions, by avoiding the expenses of pro...

Microsoft Azure vs Bamboo

Comparisons

GitHub Actions vs Bamboo

Compared 24% of the time

Tekton vs Bamboo

Compared 14% of the time

Harness vs Bamboo

Compared 12% of the time

Bitbucket vs Bamboo

Compared 5% of the time

Compared 4% of the time

More Bamboo Competitors

Microsoft Azure DevOps vs GitLab

Compared 41% of the time

GitHub CoPilot vs GitLab

Compared 10% of the time

TeamCity vs GitLab

Compared 4% of the time

Tekton vs GitLab

Compared 4% of the time

AWS CodePipeline vs GitLab

Compared 2% of the time

More GitLab Competitors

Harness vs Jenkins

Compared 12% of the time

JFrog Pipeline vs Jenkins

Compared 9% of the time

TeamCity vs Jenkins

Compared 8% of the time

Bazel vs Jenkins

Compared 7% of the time

Nx vs Jenkins

Compared 5% of the time

More Jenkins Competitors

Product Reports

Download Bamboo product report

Bamboo

November 2025

Download GitLab product report

October 2025

Download Jenkins product report

October 2025

Also Known As

No data available

Fuzzit

No data available

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.

Atlassian

GitLab offers a secure and user-friendly platform for CI/CD pipeline management, code repository control, and collaboration, enhancing development speed and efficiency. It facilitates automation with extensive customization and tool integration, ideal for DevOps processes.

GitLab supports source code management, version control, and collaborative development. It's frequently used in CI/CD processes to automate builds and deployments while integrating DevOps practices. GitLab allows companies to manage repositories, automate pipelines, conduct code reviews, and maintain development lifecycles. The platform supports infrastructure and configuration management, enabling efficient code collaboration, deployment automation, and comprehensive repository handling. Many organizations commit and deploy developed code using GitLab's capabilities.

What are GitLab's most valuable features?

CI/CD Pipeline Management: Streamlines development through automated testing and deployment.
User-Friendly Interface: Ensures ease of collaboration and task automation.
Code Merging and Branching: Facilitates smooth code integration and version control.
Security Platform: Provides strong security features for safe development.
Tool Integration: Enhances functionality with diverse tool integration.

What benefits should users evaluate?

Development Speed: Accelerates processes through automation.
Collaboration Ease: Simplifies team interactions and workflow.
Customization Options: Offers extensive personalization for specific needs.
Comprehensive Documentation: Provides detailed guidance for users.
Secure Platform: Maintains integrity with robust security features.

In specific industries, GitLab serves as a backbone for source code management and CI/CD implementation. Companies leverage its capabilities for infrastructure management and deployment automation, thus streamlining project delivery timelines. Its ability to handle configuration management and code repositories effectively aids in maintaining development lifecycles, making it a preferred choice for organizations committed to enhancing their DevOps practices.

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