GitLab vs Jenkins vs TeamCity comparison

GitLab and Jenkins are both solutions in the Build Automation category. GitLab is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6, while Jenkins is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.1. GitLab holds a 15.9% mindshare in BA, compared to Jenkins’s 10.4% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of GitLab users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Jenkins users who would recommend it.

GitLab

Read 82 GitLab reviews

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4,974 Comparison Views

97% willing to recommend

Jenkins

Read 93 Jenkins reviews

4,156 Views
3,557 Comparison Views

87% willing to recommend

TeamCity

Read 28 TeamCity reviews

2,185 Views
1,937 Comparison Views

90% willing to recommend

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

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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 May 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of GitLab is 15.9%, down from 18.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 10.4%, down from 13.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TeamCity is 7.6%, up from 6.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Gaurav Chandel

AWS DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineer at Tata Consultancy

Boosted productivity with automated pipelines and seamless collaboration

There are some challenges with repository file management as GitLab may struggle to manage larger files. Improvements could be made regarding size management and file partitioning. Also, the UI has remained the same for a couple of years and could benefit from an update with AI features and better customization.

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Dinesh-Patil

Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment

The dashboard needs to be improved. Though the access management and authentication functionalities are present, the dashboard and UI could be more user-friendly. The product has many plug-ins. Users have to go through the documentation to be able to use the product. The UI must be more user-friendly. The information should be available in the dashboard itself. The users shouldn’t have to refer to the documentation. When a user hovers over the elements on the dashboard, it should reveal information about them.

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Omakoji Idakwoji

Software Engineer at Home Depot

Build management system used to successfully create full request tests and run security scans

I find the TeamCity backend easily accessible. Users can login to the Linux servers that TeamCity is installed on and perform operations. Also I find the ability to template solutions using the meta runner a good feature as well as the user management feature. There is a display that shows which user made recent changes to a branch on GitHub, including the time the changes were made and the particular agent that ran the job. This is also a very useful feature. The metrics and audit available for projects, pipelines and jobs come in handy when debugging.

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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

"It's a great toolbox where the CI/CD pipeline is the fundamental component, but there are so many other features that you can pull from, which makes it a very powerful tool. My current client is using AWS, and they can, of course, use AWS CodePipeline, but GitLab is much more mature than that, and it also gives you the freedom to decide to go to another platform or have a multi-cloud strategy and things like that. That freedom for me is also very valuable."

"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."

"The solution's most valuable features are pipelines."

"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."

"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."

"The scalability is good."

"I like that you can use GitLab as a double-sided solution for both DevOps and version management. It's a good product for working in these two areas, and the user interface makes it easy to understand."

"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."

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"With Jenkins, the pipeline will take your code from any versioning system like GitHub or Bitbucket. All the security scans can happen in one go and then all the tests also get run. You can just build one container in it and deploy it."

"It's very useful when you want to automate different processes from beginning to end."

"The automated elements are easy to use and you can put them into your server."

"GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins."

"Jenkins is very stable."

"Jenkins' most valuable feature is Pipeline."

"The simplicity of Jenkins and the evolving ecosystem of Jenkins are most valuable. Today, you do not have to write a pipeline from scratch. The library functionality of Jenkins helps you to bring all those in ready-made, and you also get the best practices for them. That is a great feature of Jenkins, and that is why it is being used significantly."

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

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"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its easy configuration. It also has multiple plugins that can be used especially for building .net applications."

"TeamCity's GUI is nice."

"TeamCity is a very user-friendly tool."

"The flexibility of TeamCity allows it to fit in workflows that I have yet to imagine."

"The integration is a valuable feature."

"Time to deployment has been reduced in situations where we want to deploy to production or deploy breaking changes."

"VCS Trigger: Provides excellent source control support."

"We would like to see better integration with other version controls, since we encountered difficulty when this we first attempted."

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Cons

"The documentation is confusing."

"It should be used by a larger number of people. They should raise awareness."

"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."

"I would like configuration of a YML file to be done via UI rather than a code file."

"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."

"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."

"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."

"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."

More GitLab cons

"The documentation on plugin development could be better: more examples. "

"A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful."

"Jenkins could improve by allowing more scripting languages. We need to use Groovy scripting and it is difficult to debug and it is not ideal for creating file scripts. We tried to search for assistance but we did not find much help."

"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."

"The learning curve is quite steep at the moment."

"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."

"Sometimes you have Jenkins restarting because of OOM errors."

"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."

More Jenkins cons

"If there was more documentation that was easier to locate, it would be helpful for users."

"Last time I used it, dotnet compilation had to be done via PowerShell scripts. There was actually a lot that had to be scripted."

"It will benefit this solution if they keep up to date with other CI/CD systems out there."

"I need some more graphical design."

"I would suggest creating simple and advanced configurations. Advanced configurations will give more customizations like Jenkins does."

"Their online documentation is fairly extensive, but sometimes you can end up navigating in circles to find answers. I would like them (or partner with someone) to provide training classes to help newcomers get things up and running more quickly."

"The integration between other solutions and TeamCity could be smoother."

"If TeamCity could create more out of the box solutions to make it more user friendly and create more use cases, that would be ideal."

More TeamCity cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is based on a licensing model that includes technical support and is paid annually."

"This product is not very expensive but the price can be better."

"Regarding pricing, I would rate GitLab as moderately priced, maybe around a seven or eight out of ten. It could be more flexible for clients but generally offers good value."

"GitLab is comparatively expensive, but it provides value because it's feature-rich."

"The price is okay."

"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."

"The solution is free."

"We are using the free version of GitLab."

More GitLab pricing and cost advice

"It is a cheap solution."

"Jenkins is open source."

"It is a free product."

"We use the tool's open-source version which is free. There is an enterprise version which is expensive but comes with better support."

"It is free."

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

"I used the free OSS version all the time. It was enough for all my needs."

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

More Jenkins pricing and cost advice

"The licensing is on an annual basis."

"Start with the free tier for a few build configs and see how it works for you, then according to your scale find the enterprise license which fits you the most."

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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

24%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitLab?

The pricing of GitLab is reasonable, aligning with what I consider to be average compared to competitors.

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What needs improvement with GitLab?

Certain features in Jira are not available in GitLab, such as the functionality to have weights at the milestone and ...

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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...

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What do you like most about Jenkins?

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

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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...

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What do you like most about TeamCity?

One of the most beneficial features for us is the flexibility it offers in creating deployment steps tailored to diff...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TeamCity?

Compared to new technologies, TeamCity is more expensive and is an older tool compared to tools like GitLab.

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What needs improvement with TeamCity?

TeamCity's user interface could be improved; specifically, the tree structure on the homepage is not clear, making it...

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Overview

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform that enables teams to collaborate and deliver software faster.

It provides a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle, from planning and development to testing, deployment, and monitoring.

With GitLab, teams can streamline their workflows, automate processes, and improve productivity.

GitLab

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

Jenkins

TeamCity is a Continuous Integration and Deployment server that provides out-of-the-box continuous unit testing, code quality analysis, and early reporting on build problems. A simple installation process lets you deploy TeamCity and start improving your release management practices in a matter of minutes. TeamCity supports Java, .NET and Ruby development and integrates perfectly with major IDEs, version control systems, and issue tracking systems.

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Sample Customers

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