We compared Bitbucket and Bitbucket Server based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Bitbucket and Bitbucket Server both offer seamless integration with other development tools, reliable version control systems, and efficient collaboration capabilities. Bitbucket has competitive pricing options, flexible licensing, and responsive customer service. Bitbucket Server provides powerful version control, excellent collaboration features, and comprehensive security measures. Both products require improvement in user interface and navigation, better integration with other tools, and enhancements in performance and scalability.
Features: Bitbucket focuses on its seamless integration with other tools and efficient collaboration capabilities. Bitbucket Server emphasizes powerful version control, reliable repository management, and comprehensive security measures.
Pricing and ROI: Bitbucket offers competitive pricing options and a straightforward setup process. The licensing options are flexible and user-friendly. Users find the pricing to be reasonable and appreciate the straightforward setup process. Users also find the licensing terms to be fair., Bitbucket users praised the platform for streamlining development, enhancing collaboration, and boosting productivity. They found its cost justified for version control and continuous integration. Similarly, Bitbucket Server was also seen as valuable and beneficial for user projects or processes.
Room for Improvement: Bitbucket could benefit from enhancements in terms of its user interface and navigation. Users have suggested the need for a more intuitive design, clearer labeling of features, and improved search functionality. Additionally, better integration with other development tools and platforms is desired. On the other hand, Bitbucket Server also needs improvements in its user interface and navigation, with users emphasizing the need for better integration with other tools and platforms. Additionally, improvements in performance and scalability have been suggested.
Deployment and customer support: Bitbucket has received feedback from users regarding the time needed for implementation. One user spent three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while another user took a week for deployment and setup. It is important to consider both timeframes. In contrast, Bitbucket Server users experienced variation in the duration required for deployment, setup, or implementation. One user spent three months on deployment and a week on setup, while another user completed both deployment and setup in a week, suggesting these phases might refer to the same period., Bitbucket customers highly praise the customer service and support provided. Users appreciate the promptness, efficiency, and knowledgeable assistance received. Bitbucket Server users also commend the support team's responsiveness, efficiency, and helpful guidance.
The summary above is based on 39 interviews we conducted recently with Bitbucket and Bitbucket Server users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It's straightforward to adapt to, with user-friendly features and a convenient UI."
"This is a very dependable product that is easy to use and it has an excellent GUI interface."
"Bitbucket is a standard source code repository with all the features you would expect. It supports Git and SVN. It's an extensive tool that provides us with merging, branching, and change management capabilities. You can compare the changes with the current and previous versions."
"The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is you can see the differences between the fresh code and the old code before you merge. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and well-integrated."
"We have a couple of different tools that allow us to tie source code changes to report bugs. It's integrated with a bug tracking system and also integrated with what requires a tracking system. So we have better facilities. We get with the command line and can type all that stuff in and get the same kind of trust, but when we d it all manually, it's not likely to happen."
"We use Bitbucket for Jira, Confluence, and Jenkins and we have an automation pipeline. Whenever the coaching is done in Bitbucket we run an automation pipeline from the build, create installations, and tests all in one pipeline. It is done automatically."
"The version control feature for our code and the security aspect is valuable to us."
"We have approximately 300 to 400 users using this solution. Our whole organization uses it. I rate the scalability of Bitbucket an eight out of ten."
"Bitbucket Server is easy to use. You can use other applications to access it, or you can use it to access the internet. You can use solutions, such as Sourcetree, which is free, and put it on your development system and use it to do the check-in, checkouts, and those type of operations. It is nice, but some other developers may agree."
"Our code is secure."
"I believe it's user-friendly for our developers, and it's effective in terms of traceability for tracking our actions."
"The most valuable feature of the Bitbucket Server is its ease of management. The solution is easy to manage once we migrate and set up the data. The solution offers a fast code push feature."
"The tool makes pushing codes and setting up CI/CD pipelines easy."
"Bitbucket Server easily integrates with Jira because they are both Atlassian products."
"Integration of Bitbucket with JIRA & Bamboo is well done by Atlassian."
"Its standout features are the seamless integration with various intelligent tools and its user-friendly nature."
"Bitbucket could improve pipeline building and deployment. Our deployments are not using the Bitbucket. Deployments we are going through Azure DevOps, but the integration is happening in Bitbucket."
"Technical support is not very fast."
"One of the areas the solution could improve on is when there is a merging conflict it is quite confusing. When I am having a merging conflict I get stuck on the page, then I need to search how to handle the particular problem. For example, finding what the commands are which can be used."
"It goes well with other Atlassian solutions like Jira or Bamboo, but integration with other third-party solutions is more complex."
"The UI could be a little better compared to competing solutions."
"I think the configuration can be improved because it is getting more complicated and not very well organized."
"In future releases, more integration is always a valuable aspect to consider."
"Sometimes we struggle with searching on repositories. It is a bit challenging sometimes to pinpoint the code or repositories when just filtering by repositories."
"At the moment, there are not many details on how to proceed with the troubleshooting if one of the users faces an issue with the product."
"Enhancing the real-time reflection of changes online is an area that could benefit from improvement."
"Bitbucket Server can experience performance issues when pushing a large amount of code. This process may take a considerable amount of time."
"Bitbucket Server has limited user support for its free version. It is expensive."
"We opted for the on-premises solution, and while it's quite expensive, I believe there's room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The tasks on Bitbucket must be automatically integrated into Jira."
"The solution's user interface could be improved because it's not very user-friendly or intuitive."
"Instead of providing only raw features and plugins, Atlassian should provide a ready-to-use integration of both choices to incorporate "trunk-based" development."
Bitbucket is ranked 1st in Version Control with 42 reviews while Bitbucket Server is ranked 2nd in Version Control with 17 reviews. Bitbucket is rated 8.4, while Bitbucket Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Bitbucket writes "It's a good solution for storing code, but the usability and integration could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Bitbucket Server writes "An easy to use solution that works as a code repository for developers and helps them merge changes ". Bitbucket is most compared with AWS CodeCommit, GitHub, Atlassian SourceTree, Liquibase and IBM Rational ClearCase, whereas Bitbucket Server is most compared with Atlassian SourceTree, AWS CodeCommit and GitHub. See our Bitbucket vs. Bitbucket Server report.
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