All CircleCI Reviews
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Darrell "Jeremy"
Verified reviewer
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2017
Great build/deploy tool
It's quick, easy to set up, and I like it. There are some usability fixes that are needed around user maangement, but otherwise, it's great! And works with all of the languages I use out of the box, and with no configuration.
PROSCircleCI was great and easy to set up. It allows me to see what's going on with all of my builds quickly and in real time.
CONSThe user management is not very good. I have 5 contributors to a repo, and I can only add two of them as users. I can't even add users that aren't a contributor to the repo. My boss, my QA people, and my PMs can't see anything that's happening in the platform.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2021
The right CI system for our DevOps
We used this CI/CD management software to deliver the products as fast as we can to test the water (product-market fit, validation...), then iterate, and pivoting quickly if needed. It's a good tool to do all of that.
PROSThese features helped us with fixing issues and shipping more: Configuration Management, Build Log and Approval Workflow. All of that made our workplace headache-free and reduce the number of sleepless nights for our developers...
CONSThe software lacks these features: Chat/Messaging, Authentication and Assignment Management.
Reasons for switching to CircleCI
Clients request
Carey
Verified reviewer
Internet, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2022
Easy-to-use UI and features for configuring the CI
We deploy in the form of a circle. Since it was already in place when I began working here, I can't speak to how things were before, but I can say that it makes things much simpler for newcomers to the organization.
PROSExcellent customer service, and now even faster builds Workflows 2.0 makes it simple for me to parallelize tasks. Simple integration with code-quality services like GitHub. If necessary, it can be built on macOS.
CONSNothing of significance to point out. It's a little messy with reduced resolutions if we go to a project and filter it by Branch Name. On a mobile device or a browser tab, for example. Except for that, everything else is fine.
Yasmany
Verified reviewer
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2018
CI/CD with few lines
Integration with IOs allow us to build and test the mobile apps and automatize our whole CI/CD pipeline
PROSSine the release of circleci v2.0 using containers as the main advantage using circle has become much simpler and powerfull. Their integration with IOs its a powerup in front of other CI/CD platforms
CONSThe ui really needs to cleanup a bit, make it simpler. Also their need to provide more integrations with third party tools
Noah
Verified reviewer
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2017
I love CI about as much as Circle does
The simplicity of configuration is unparalleled. We use CI on new projects day one. The ease of use, and setup, is definitely what keeps us coming back.
CONSLack of tools for multi project repos. We would love to keep our front and back-end code together in one repo while splitting the CI for them. So, it'd be great if we could run two builds separately based on the same repo.
Ryan
Verified reviewer
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2018
CircleCi has changed how we develop
Overall I've been really happy with the performance from circleci. Even their free plan has been great.
PROSHas helped up to totally streamline our development and testing workflow. Each service has it's own pipeline. The management interface and docker integration have made the setup and monitoring process super simple.
Travis
Verified reviewer
Higher Education, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2017
Easy to use and powerful
Super easy configuration and initial setup. Powerful features like running steps of build/testing process in parallel. CircleCI is our teams core safety net for catching bugs and deploying safely, often.
CONSNot a lot to dislike. Sometimes the interface changes and buttons that you used to expect to be there (like the one for rebuild with out cache) disappear. Hopefully there will be fewer of these unexpected changes as 2.0 becomes more mature.
Filip
Verified reviewer
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2018
Powerful CI / CD platform
Great UI, easy to setup, easy to manage. All integrations "just work", we use Slack notifications, webhooks for triggering build, and even those sweet browser notifications when we need to make sure that the build is successful. Impressive Docker support.
CONSCircle 2.0 offers improved customizability, added more features, but for small and simple projects it's not as easy to setup anymore.
vikash
Verified reviewer
Management Consulting, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2018
My favourite tool for continuous integration :)
It is easy to setup. It can do very fast parallel testing. I find UI of it clear and easy to use. it provide integration of many app like GitHub. it supports 8 languages and 16 databases and it also supports Headless browser.
CONSit Does not cache docker images. Docker is way outdated on the VM provided. Other than that i don't find any problem with it. I think it is best
Tung
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2018
Great tool but lack tutorials
As any Continuous Integration tool it does what it should do. Builds and runs. Hard to say what's the most because haven't used other CI tools but CircleCI does what's expected and there was no thoughts about changing to other tools. So I would recommend using it.
CONSThe tutorials are not yet clear. They don't lead from start to workable CI.
Robert
Entertainment, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2022
Best in class continuous integration
My go-to on every SAAS product. Delivers the goods everytime.
PROSIt is incredibly easy to get started, you can be integrated in hours and from then on its a consistent reliable platform for all your CI needs.
CONSAs test suites grow and parallelization becomes important it can get awfully expensive. I still use it on every project but I was at a prior company where we racked up bills in the thousands a month without really trying for not that big a product. This was definitely due to some poor planning but CircleCI makes it easy to land yourself in that kind of situation if you're not careful.
Mehak
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2020
One of te best on cloud CI/CD for all kinds of application.
Used it with a number of applications, the GIT integration was very smooth. It is used for the deployment of the master on test and production environment by simple pull request creation and branch merge.
PROSThe great configurational freedom to the user makes it suitable for any and all kinds of applications. The step by step view provided is very helpful UI to track the whole process. The YML templates make it very easy to set up and the git configuration part is very well documented and just a few steps can make it work.
CONSThe pricing of the tool is a bit on the higher side compared to its competitors. Docker support is not complete.
Michal
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2020
CircleCI CI/CD
It automates many repetitive tasks such as running the tests, building and deployment to various environments and it makes my life easier.
PROSI am using CircleCI within many projects and I like it - its feature-rich, supports every usecase we need and from my perspective is absolutely sufficient as CI/CD tool for projects I was working on. It also has free plan which could be enough for smaller teams or projects.
CONSNot very often, but still, sometimes an inexplicable black magic happens and it requires a bit of debugging and reconfiguring of the project or the CircleCI.
Nikhil Kumar
Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
Simple and inexpensive tool for CI/CD.
It's inexpensiveness is the main attraction but also along with that CircleCi provides tons of other helpful features as well you can share the test logs via email as well.
CONSAs for my use case I don't have anything to dislike and it is ideal for me.
Harmandeep
51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2018
CircleCI for build/deployment
It helps me to analyze all build quickly in real time. It is pretty simple to configure, setup and use. It has a pretty good integration with various remote repositories and it can run tests and give you results.
CONSThe learning curve is steep for some developers. It has two versions of the software, which sometimes makes it difficult to manage.
Remco
Verified reviewer
Renewables & Environment, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2017
try building it manually
automated testing, building and deploying really helped or project in reaching maximum velocity for the scrum teams
CONSWhat I least like about Circle CI is the slow learning curve for some of the programmers so that they are able to make a build and deploy script themselves
Andrew
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2017
If you haven't tried it, you need to
generous free plans for open source projects easy to set up plenty of features plenty of customization runs quick
CONSAdditional containers are a bit pricey. There are other services offering similar products at much lower prices.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2020
Very helpful and resonable pricing plans
I'm developing and managing various web services and mobile apps in a small startup. CircleCI is essential for productivity and maintaining code quality with my team.
PROSIt provides many useful features, and I can use most of them with a free plan. Customer service is also excellent.
CONS'Workflows' is useful, but it can not be tested locally by its nature.
Anonymous
501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed July 2019
Very easy
The software works great, is fast, and extremely easy to use.
CONSNone, but I believe paid options could be less expensive
Jonathan
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2022
excellent product!
Love this software we use it for automated unit test checks before deploying and it works great!
CONSHonestly, I don't have anything in particular that I disliked, you guys have a great product
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2021
FIrst time using a CI tool, and CircleCI delivers!
CircleCI brings a lot of security to our code deployment workflow: running unit and integration tests, and code analysis such as linters, it's a godsent.
PROSThis is my first experience using a CI software tool, and it's AMAZING. Tools that automate the workflow of code deployment gives a lot of
CONSNot too much of a problem, but there's somewhat of a learning curve to set up your environment. Took me a few days to educate myself in the specifics, such as caching, jobs, workers etc.
Karol
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2022
Simple and good integrated with GitHub tool for CI/CD
In general works and do it's job in small, experimental projects.
PROSEasy to start, good integration with GitHub, free for small and open-source projects.
CONSThe pricing is a bit higher compared to its competitors.
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
A nice CI Tools
Circle CI is a very nice CI tools, especially if you need to build on Apple devices
CONSIt's a bit pricy regarding other service that can be opensource
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2018
Continuous integration on the cloud
It's an excellent unobtrusive CI that keeps developers writing software rather than waiting for tests to finish. It can quickly run through thousands of tests and send alerts once complete. The UI is great and easy to use.
CONSThe config is probably the worst of the cloud CI software.
Denis
Verified reviewer
Banking, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2020
Gets the tests done
I code for a number of repositories that are integrated with CircleCI to run several integration, schema and unit tests. I have never had to configure it, and I imagine that the work required to do so is non-negligible. However, after that, it's very easy to use and automate a very boring, yet very important part our processes.
PROS- Integration with GitHub and Slack - Automation of several types of tests (schema validation, integration, unit tests, etc) - Easy to monitor the results of tests while they're still running
CONSPerhaps due to the high volume of simultaneous users, sometimes it would be faster to run tests locally rather than on circleci