Incredibuild vs Jenkins comparison

IncrediBuild and Jenkins are both solutions in the Build Automation category. IncrediBuild is ranked #25, while Jenkins is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.1. IncrediBuild holds a 0.7% mindshare in BA, compared to Jenkins’s 10.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IncrediBuild users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Jenkins users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Incredibuild and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Incredibuild

Ranking in Build Automation

25th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Incredibuild is 0.7%, down from 0.8% 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.

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Zvika Moskovitz

DevOps Team Leader at Elbit Systems Ltd

Saves time for developers, which saves money for the company

We are using the Incredibuild agent to run multiple processes on all available cores. This is the improvement that we did. Instead of the machine's core doing task after task, it is now running on multiple machines. In my working environment, it is saving time for all our developers in regards to the time consumption of the builds. My team has four people who manage and interact with Incredibuild as a product.

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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

"It is saving time for developers, which is saving money for the company."

"Jenkins is particularly valuable since it saves time by automating manual tasks."

"The solution is scalable and concurrent users have access to the platform."

"Very easy to understand for newcomers."

"Also, the ability to customize these plugins is valuable. Its user-friendliness stands out, especially in its user interface which allows easy installation and configuration."

"Jenkins's open-based framework is very valuable."

"Distributed execution of build and test jobs."

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

"Jenkins is free and open source."

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Cons

"Stability could be improved. I don't know the reason for the instability because there are no logs that help me to understand the problem."

"Adding support for OIDC and internal user databases simultaneously would improve Jenkins."

"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."

"Improvement-wise, I would want the solution's user interface to be changed for the better. In short, the solution can be made more user-friendly."

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

"Tasks such as deployment, cloning, database switchover, and all other database missions and tasks are being done through Jenkins. If a job does not go through, at times the error message does not clearly indicate what caused the failure. I have to escalate it to the Jenkins DevOps team just to see what caused the failure. If the error message is clear, then I wouldn't have to escalate the issue to different teams."

"Some kind of SaaS product would be helpful in providing organizational structure."

"Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms."

"We sometimes face challenges during version upgrades, such as failures when migrating Kubernetes versions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its pricing and licensing are annoying. Every year, I need to renew. If I miss the deadline date, all my processes will stop working. So, I would prefer that I wouldn't need to renew every year, instead have another solution for it. Or, if we could have an enterprise license agreement with the company, then the development team wouldn't need to spend time renewing licenses."

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

"It is an open source."

"It is a free product."

"In our company, we do pay for the licensing of the solution."

"There is no cost. It is open source."

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

"It is free."

"Jenkins is open source and free."

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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

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Overview

Incredibuild, the world’s leading platform for development acceleration, lets you deliver faster developer cycles and shorten your time-top market with more compute power and lower costs on prem and the cloud.

Incredibuild enables every machine to use hundreds of cores to accelerate time-consuming software development by using idle CPUs in network or bursting to the cloud. Use the full potential of your network to raise product quality, iterate more frequently, and increase dev productivity.

Most importantly, Incredibuild works out of the box, no need to change any of your existing toolchain, processes, or code.

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

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Sample Customers

Over 2,000 companies worldwide across industries inluding Epic Games, Microsoft, Playstation, Nintendo, Samsung, GM, Intel, CitiGroup, Qualcomm, Boeing, Motorola, Qt, and more accelerate their development and enhance their devs’ productivity with Incredibuild.

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