Jenkins vs Microsoft Azure comparison

The compared Jenkins and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Jenkins is ranked #4 in BA , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 9.1% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #1 in ISI , with an average rating of 8.4, and holds a 15.5% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Jenkins users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Jenkins

Read 92 Jenkins reviews

3,539 Views
3,468 Comparison Views

88% willing to recommend

Microsoft Azure

Read 321 Microsoft Azure reviews

19,910 Views
10,552 Comparison Views

95% willing to recommend

Jenkins

Microsoft Azure

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Jenkins and Microsoft Azure 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: August 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Build Automation

August 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 867,497 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:

Categories and Ranking

Jenkins

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Build Automation (4th)

Microsoft Azure

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

321

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (1st), PaaS Clouds (1st)

Mindshare comparison

Jenkins and Microsoft Azure aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Jenkins is designed for Build Automation and holds a mindshare of 9.1%, down 11.8% compared to last year.
Microsoft Azure, on the other hand, focuses on Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS), holds 15.5% mindshare, down 18.2% since last year.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Jenkins	9.1%
GitLab	12.6%
GitHub Actions	10.1%
Other	68.2%

Build Automation

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Microsoft Azure	15.5%
Amazon AWS	16.0%
Alibaba Cloud	11.9%
Other	56.6%

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

Featured Reviews

Annamalai Pts

DevOps Engineer at Tech Mahindra Limited

Streamlined CI/CD pipelines with powerful integration and an easy setup

I use Jenkins as a CI/CD tool. We create pipelines using Jenkins, with stages for Maven builds, Docker image builds, SonarQube integration, and deploying the image to a Kubernetes cluster, AWS EKS Jenkins has made the developers' work very easy. They commit to the remote repository, and…

Read full review

Syed Abid

Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra

Versatile integrations and reliable customer satisfaction elevate cloud service experience

For Microsoft Azure improvement, they need to enhance their support system. The first level of support should be improved in terms of quality and response time. They need more technical support at the first level, as there are currently only one or two technical people among five to ten staff members at this level. They should ensure that the first level support is more technical because we normally provide services to technical users ourselves. When an issue arises, it usually escalates to the second or third level. When facing first level support, they may have limited knowledge and only collect screenshots to forward to their seniors. They should ensure that the first level support is aligned with L2 and L3 to better assist us, especially since we mention in the ticket that our issues are related to specific problems and require that sort of support.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"There are a large number of plugins available for integration with third party systems."

"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration of automatic scripts for testing and the user's ability to use any script."

"Distributed execution of build and test jobs."

"I love Jenkins. I like that you work on anything, and you make anything. Jenkins is very important for my team. I am satisfied with the product."

"Jenkins is free and open source."

"Jenkins is very stable."

"The initial setup is simple."

"We are using the open-source version and there is a lot of plugins and features that are available and it works on agents for free. In other solutions, it will cost extra to use them with the agent."

More Jenkins pros

"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."

"The solution offers very good upgrades and updates regularly."

"The most efficient feature of Microsoft Azure is that we can use it to update a website with a few clicks."

"One advantage of using Azure is that clients can start with a low-cost entry in terms of hardware and scale as their business and user base grows. They don't need to allocate a large budget for infrastructure upfront."

"We have found the user interface to be intuitive. Microsoft is a master at UI."

"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."

"Managed storage capabilities, which create a very simple way to create, copy, and replicate local or geo-replicate, it's very simple to assign workloads."

"It's very scalable. We can scale up to 80-85% without issues."

More Microsoft Azure pros

Cons

"Jenkins is an old product, and we encounter performance issues and slow response. Also, some of the plugins are not stable."

"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 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."

"Developer documentation for plugins, plugin development, integrations: Sometimes it’s tricky to do pretty obvious things."

"Upgrading and maintaining plugins can be painful, as sometimes upgrading a plugin can break functionality of another plugin that a job is dependent on."

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

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

"The upgrades need improvement."

More Jenkins cons

"The diagnostics should have more logs."

"In the next release, I would like to see better security."

"Could be more user friendly; initial setup is difficult to understand."

"There are so many services available that the interface is a little bit messy, and when you're looking for a specific service, you have to know exactly where to search."

"Maybe Microsoft could improve its monitoring around the networking."

"They are a bit closed on the customization side. If they open the customization then it will be very good."

"The technical support is good, but the response time is poor."

"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more user-friendly and the interface could be better."

More Microsoft Azure cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Jenkins is an open-source tool."

"The solution is open source."

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

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

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

"Jenkins is not expensive and reasonably priced."

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

"It is free."

More Jenkins pricing and cost advice

"The pricing is fine."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"Azure costing can be multi-layered."

"Licensing fees are paid monthly."

"Its pricing model can be improved. It is variable, and if you do a simulation now, within a few months, the price can change, and your simulation would no longer be valid."

"It's a metered environment, and it's pay-as-you-go. That's the big challenge with a metered environment."

"The price of the solution can be expensive."

"The pricing is cheap."

More Microsoft Azure 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

867,497 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Comparison Review

it_user8586

Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Aug 14, 2013

Amazon vs Rackspace vs Microsoft vs Google: Cloud Hosting Services Comparison

Amazon Web Services, Rackspace OpenStack, Microsoft Windows Azure and Google are the major cloud hosting and storage service providers. Athough Amazon is top of them and is oldest in cloud market, Rackspace, Microsoft and Google are giving tough competition to each other and to Amazon also for…

Read full review

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	139
Midsize Enterprise	53
Large Enterprise	148

Questions from the Community

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 requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very e...

See all answers

What do you like most about Jenkins?

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

See all answers

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.

See all answers

Which is preferable - IBM Public Cloud or Microsoft Azure?

IBM Public Cloud is IBM’s Platform-as-a-Service. It aims to provide organizations with a secure cloud environment to manage data and applications. One of the features we like is the cloud activity ...

See all answers

Which is better - SAP Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure?

One of the best features of SAP Cloud Platform is that it is web-based and you can log in from anywhere in the world. SAP Cloud Platform is suitable for companies of any size; it works well with bo...

See all answers

How does Microsoft Azure compare to Google Firebase?

I would recommend Google Firebase instead of Microsoft Azure, simply for the array of features that it has to offer. In particular, the Firebase library grants you access to a shared data structure...

See all answers

Comparisons

Harness vs Jenkins

Compared 15% of the time

GitLab vs Jenkins

Compared 15% of the time

JFrog Pipeline vs Jenkins

Compared 8% of the time

Bazel vs Jenkins

Compared 8% of the time

TeamCity vs Jenkins

Compared 8% of the time

More Jenkins Competitors

Alibaba Cloud vs Microsoft Azure

Compared 13% of the time

Amazon AWS vs Microsoft Azure

Compared 10% of the time

Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs Microsoft Azure

Compared 9% of the time

Red Hat OpenShift vs Microsoft Azure

Compared 8% of the time

SAP Cloud Platform vs Microsoft Azure

Compared 8% of the time

More Microsoft Azure Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Jenkins

September 2025

Download Jenkins product report

Buyer's Guide

Microsoft Azure

August 2025

Download Microsoft Azure product report

Also Known As

No data available

Windows Azure, Azure, MS Azure

Overview

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

Jenkins

Microsoft Azure integrates services and offers flexibility, ensuring compatibility with diverse environments. Its scalability, security, and cost-efficient features enhance deployment and management, making it ideal for infrastructure services and application hosting.

Azure provides a comprehensive suite of tools for application deployment, virtual machine management, and data analytics. It allows seamless integration with Power BI and offers a user-friendly interface supported by detailed documentation and technical support. Though users appreciate its capabilities, they sometimes face challenges with costs, setup, and interface complexity, alongside integration and performance issues. Frequent updates and a learning curve are also noted, though Azure's cloud-based security and scalability remain critical for disaster recovery and business continuity.

What are Azure's key features?

Integrated Services: Ensures compatibility with Microsoft and non-Microsoft environments.
Scalability: Supports growing business demands with flexible computing power.
Security: Offers robust cloud-based security features for data protection.
Cost Efficiency: Provides options that optimize costs for diverse requirements.
Application Deployment: Facilitates quick rollout of apps and services.

What benefits should users expect from Azure?

Operational Optimization: Allows companies to streamline processes effectively.
Innovative Efficiency: Empowers businesses to innovate with powerful tools.
Reliable Support: Backed by strong technical support and comprehensive documentation.
Flexible Cloud Solutions: Offers a range of options for cloud migrations and infrastructure management.

Microsoft Azure is widely implemented in industries like financial services, healthcare, and logistics for hosting enterprise applications and vital services. Companies utilize its capabilities for IoT applications, DevOps, and Kubernetes clusters, benefiting from its cloud migrations, data analytics, and active directory support.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

Airial, Clarus Financial Technology, cubetutor, Metawidget, mysocio, namma, silverpeas, Sokkva, So Rave, tagzbox

BMW, Toyota, easyJet, NBC Sports, HarperCollins, Aviva, TalkTalk Business, Avanade, and Telenor.

Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Google, GitHub and others in Build Automation. Updated: August 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

867,497 professionals have used our research since 2012.

We monitor all Build Automation reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.