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Octopus Deploy vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

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

Octopus Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
UrbanCode Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Octopus Deploy is 2.1%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UrbanCode Deploy is 4.6%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
UrbanCode Deploy4.6%
Octopus Deploy2.1%
Other93.3%
Release Automation
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2006736 - PeerSpot reviewer
MS Apps Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reasonable price, simple to deploy, and does everything we want
We're a DevOps team., and its use case is deployment. That's the only thing it does. Our version is relatively recent Deployment is valuable. It deploys well. You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there…
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DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
A handy interface that includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality
Our company uses the solution for standard, blue-green, and complex deployments. We have 250 users throughout our company.  The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently.  The user interface includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality. It is easy to create component…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The rollback feature has been most valuable. We can write scripts from scratch. Octopus maintains an independent package for every deployment."
"This has always been our choice for continuous product development."
"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"It's a deployment tool; it does one thing, and it does it well."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"The rollback feature has been most valuable; we can write scripts from scratch, and Octopus maintains an independent package for every deployment."
"For DevOps, this tool is one of the best with all its integration capabilities for repositories and various systems."
"There are several most valuable features for us: Automation of deployment processes for all our projects, it's user-friendly enough for our development team to access and use on a daily basis, and the lead approval process is one of the unique features in it that can't be found in any other automation tool."
"Automated deployment forces the organization to standardize runtimes, development output and handling of platform provisioning."
"With the usage of UrbanCode Release, we are able to save on efforts required to create a detailed, accurate implementation plan, and as it has direct connectivity with UrbanCode Deploy, we can schedule automatic deployments and hence save on time and cost of resources, so the overall release efficiency has improved multifold."
"Getting the deployments automated adds a lot of value."
"It reduced more than 70% of our manual effort when it automated deployment of both UNIX and Windows-based applications using UrbanCode Deploy."
"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."
"It is very easy to make a software release. It used to take us at least a couple of hours to make a release, now we went to production with a new one last night. This new release took me five minutes."
 

Cons

"You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it."
"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to divide variables in YAML file or JSON files."
"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to divide variables in YAML file or JSON files."
"You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there is complexity."
"In our implementation, we created 16 PMR for this product. 15 of them were solved."
"I certainly would like to have a better way to pass information between deployment steps using UrbanCode Deploy because that's really difficult to do."
"Upgrading an existing Urbancode Deploy server is unfortunately quite tricky, as many of the migration scripts for the database need patching and fixes based on the specific customer install."
"We have encountered scalability issues. We did not scale particularly well."
"Its reliability has been a little suspect, and one of our frustrations has been that it's taken them some time to focus on fixing that problem."
"This solution could be made more flexible with respect to deploying databases."
"They need to reduce the footprint and improve the performance of UD agent. If the agent runs for too long it can cause a memory issue on the production server."
"Technical support is bad."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know the exact cost, but it's not exorbitant. It may be a couple of thousand dollars a year or something like that. I'm not sure, but it's reasonable. We get value for money out of it."
"The licensing fees for this solution are based on the number of servers that are being deployed and the number of agents that you have."
"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."
"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Retailer
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
31%
Insurance Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise22
 

Also Known As

No data available
uDeploy
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Microsoft, NASA, Cisco, Domain, HP, Symantec, 3M, Philips
As policy, IBM does not release customer names on non-IBM web sites.  However, public DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy case studies can be found here. IBM's UrbanCode Deploy customers span Small-Medium Businesses to Fortune 500 companies across all industries worldwide.
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