Digital.ai Release vs Jenkins comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Jenkins and Digital.ai Release are two competing products in the continuous integration and release management space. Digital.ai Release seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced control and oversight functionalities, appealing to enterprise-level demands.

Features: Jenkins offers extensive plugin support, integration capabilities, and customization options, making it flexible and versatile in various environments. Digital.ai Release provides advanced release orchestration, analytics, and compliance management, which cater to structured and regulated deployment processes in enterprises.

Room for Improvement: Jenkins could enhance its user interface experience and address the complexity of manual configurations. Additionally, improving out-of-the-box analytics features would make it more appealing. Digital.ai Release could enhance its adaptability for smaller organizations, improve pricing flexibility, and expand its open-source community engagement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jenkins offers a straightforward installation process, supported by an active community, but often requires manual configuration for optimal use. Digital.ai Release delivers a streamlined deployment experience with dedicated customer support and professional services, providing a smoother path for enterprises to set up and maintain their systems.

Pricing and ROI: Jenkins benefits from lower initial costs by being open source, relying on community support for cost-effectiveness. In contrast, Digital.ai Release incurs higher costs due to licensing but justifies these with significant ROI improvements by streamlining release cycles and enhancing reliability, particularly in large-scale enterprise environments.

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Digital.ai Release vs. Jenkins

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Categories and Ranking

Digital.ai Release

Ranking in Build Automation

15th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Release Automation (10th), DevSecOps (9th)

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Digital.ai Release is 0.9%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 10.5%, down from 13.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation

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Jeanne-Mari Chandran

Software Configuration Specialist at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Experience seamless project management and integration with robust tools

The features I find most valuable in Digital.ai Release are the integration with MS Teams, because we have MS Teams channels that publish or push notifications to that. When we start deployments, it sends a notification to the people that we are doing a deployment to their environment. It notifies them when the deployment is started, completed, or if attention is required. I also appreciate the fact that it has plugins for Bamboo and I use lots of Gradle and JSON scripts, and we do SQL upgrades as well, triggering Flyway scripts via Bamboo, along with the integration with XLD and Jira; it's all Atlassian software. Regarding environment management capabilities, Digital.ai Release is mostly useful for me, as it is more application related and that is managed via my XLD dictionary. We have one artifact that is environment agnostic, which has placeholders that correspond to my XLD keys and values, and at deployment time, it substitutes the placeholders with those environment specific values. We don't need to make a specific deployment artifact for dev, test, or production; it is all the same artifact using environment variables, ensuring what we take to production is what was tested.

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Mahdi Mallaki

Senior Devops Engineer at Rakuten

Has a community of plugin providers but needs improvement in Kubernetes integration

Integrating Jenkins with other tools or solutions has presented some challenges. For instance, when attempting to integrate Jenkins with Kubernetes, I encountered numerous errors, which took several days to resolve. In Jenkins, adding a feature typically involves incorporating the repository feature separately. Jenkins lacks built-in Git repository functionality, necessitating an external Git repository to store Jenkins manifests. In contrast, GitLab offers an integrated Git repository and pipeline runner, streamlining the process. One improvement for Jenkins could be integrating a Git server, simplifying the management of CI/CD pipelines. Currently, with Jenkins, modifying pipeline manifests requires navigating to a separate Git repository. In GitLab, however, manifest changes can be made directly within the repository.

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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 most valuable feature of Digital.ai Release is its ability to communicate with various deployment systems, such as XLD and batch deployments, as well as integrate with tools, such as Flyway and Bamboo. We use Bamboo as our build orchestrator, and Digital.ai Release also integrates with Jira, another Atlassian solution. These capabilities make it a powerful tool for managing workflow, test automation, and other processes."

"The time is also reduced because the manual work has tremendously decreased. We just have to click one button, and it will create everything for us."

"The solution can apply one template across multiple applications."

"Overall, I would give Digital.ai Release a rating of nine out of ten; there's always room for improvement, but it's really good."

"The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that."

"Jenkins is free and open source."

"This solution has helped us in automating the build and test process, reducing time."

"The most valuable features are Jenkins Pipelines for ALM and full Deploy Cycle."

"We benefit from Kubernetes' ability to autoscale pods and use horizontal pod autoscalers to adjust the number of pods based on metrics like CPU or memory usage, ensuring efficient resource allocation and stability under load."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is its ability to connect with different tools and technologies."

"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."

"Different types of jobs, such as Pipeline, Build, Freestyle, Maven, etc."

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Cons

"I would like to improve Digital.ai Release by exploring its cloud capabilities as we are currently in the middle of migrating to the cloud, but I actually have no idea what Digital.ai's cloud capabilities are."

"Digital.ai Release could improve by having a better plugin that works with Guardian that we use for mainframe migrations. If there could be an interface or plugin for Guardian that would be beneficial."

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

"Currently, we put artifact details manually. What we could improve, in our case, is the deployment instruction base. Developers input all the information, including which artifact and where it needs to be deployed. What Digital.ai could do is automatically go to the deployment instruction page, take those artifact details, and implement them."

"The backfill could be improved, we could automate that. Right now it's subjective — it's up to the lead developer's memory to remember to backfill."

"There are a lot of things that they can try to improvise. They can reduce a lot of configurations. It is currently supporting Groovy for scripting. It would be really good if it can be improvised for Python because, for most of the automation, we have Python as a script. It would be good if can also support Python. We have a lot of Android builds. These Android builds can be a part of Jenkins. It can have some plug-ins or configurations for Android builds. There should also be some internal matrix to check the performance. We also want to have more REST API support, which is currently not much in Jenkins. We are not able to get more information about running Jenkins. More REST API support should be provided."

"We would like to see the addition of mobile simulators support to this solution, as part of its open-source offering. We currently have to carry out manual testing for these platforms."

"The major drawback with Jenkins is the lack of support."

"I would like to have an integrated dashboard on top of it and a better UX to look at. The dashboard could be better in terms of integration with other tools. We should be able to have a single pane of glass across all the tools that we use where Jenkins is the pipeline. This can be a very good upgrade to it."

"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."

"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."

"Creating a new SonarQube project requires a separate job, and we've encountered some integration issues with Docker and the need for better vulnerability checks."

"I think an integrated help button, that respected the context of the change/work in hand, would be a worthwhile improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Overall, the price is just too high; especially considering we're in the middle of a pandemic."

"The solution's license includes all features."

"The tool is open-source."

"Jenkins is a free open-source server."

"Jenkins is open source and free."

"The solution is open source."

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

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

"It is an open source."

"Jenkins is a free solution, it is open source."

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Comparison Review

it_user184734

Systems Administrator at Facebook

Jan 22, 2015

I generally find TeamCity a lot more intuitive than Jenkins.

Moving to TeamCity from Jenkins At work, we’re slowly migrating from Jenkins to TeamCity in the hope of ending some of our recurring problems with continuous integration. My use of Jenkins prior to this job has been almost strictly on a personal basis, although I pretty much only use Travis…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

34%

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Digital.ai Release ?

The time is also reduced because the manual work has tremendously decreased. We just have to click one button, and it will create everything for us.

What needs improvement with Digital.ai Release ?

Based on my experience, I would like to improve Digital.ai Release by exploring its cloud capabilities as we are currently in the middle of migrating to the cloud, but I actually have no idea what ...

What is your primary use case for Digital.ai Release ?

My use case for Digital.ai Release is that I work for an insurance company on a very big project that develops multiple different pieces of software. We use Digital.ai Release to move our software ...

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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 proprietary tools.

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Also Known As

XL Release, XebiaLabs XL Release

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Overview

Automate, orchestrate, and gain visibility into your release pipelines at scale using Digital.ai Release, a release management tool that is designed for enterprises. Control and track releases, standardize processes, and bake compliance and security into your software release pipelines.

Digital.ai

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

Sample Customers

3M, GE, John Deere, Deutsche Telekom, Cable & Wireless, Xerox, and Société Générale, Liberty Mutual, EA, Rabobank

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Digital.ai Release vs. Jenkins