Octopus Deploy 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: Octopus Deploy
Rating: 4.8 (60 reviews)

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Overview

Octopus Deploy

4.8

(60)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy is a Continuous Delivery platform for complex deployments across your entire stack. Deploy with ease to Kubernetes, Linux, Windows virtual machines, Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud. If the Octopus Tentacle agent, SSH, command line, or a web service can speak to it, Octopus can deploy to it.

Octopus takes over from your CI tool and handles the release, deployment, and operations of CD in advanced ways that no CI tool can. Teams using Octopus actually look forward to deployment time. We believe deploying to production should be a routine non-event that you can do anytime. Even on Fridays.

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Octopus Deploy Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Octopus Deploy Features

Popular features found in Application Development
API
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Debugging
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Pre-built Templates
Source Control
Third-Party Integrations
Version Control
More features of Octopus Deploy
Activity Dashboard
Approval Workflow
Audit Management
Audit Trail
Configurable Workflow
Configuration Management
Continuous Deployment
Dashboard
Event Logs
Graphical User Interface
Incident Management
Integrated Development Environment
Issue Management
Issue Tracking
Project Management
Release Management
Reporting/Analytics
Role-Based Permissions
Rules-Based Workflow
Scheduling
Single Sign On
Support Ticket Management
Task Management
Task Progress Tracking
Task Scheduling
User Management

Octopus Deploy Integrations

TeamCity

Integration rated 4.8 from 15 reviews

Jira

Jenkins

Docker

Microsoft Azure

Slack

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Octopus Deploy User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

78%

22%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.6

Stephen S.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2023

Deployments at Enterprise scale made easy!

We have instrumented Octopus for ~13k projects for ~4k users as of the date of this review. We moved from a very custom process to a well defined process. There's no doubt in my head that the scale we operate at today was only possible by using Octopus Deploy for our deployments.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We have been able to integrate Octopus Deploy with pretty much anything and everything we have thrown at it. We have all sorts of different types of deployments to various on-prem and cloud based targets. Even legacy based targets. We have not found a blocker that has stopped us from integrating our deployment requirements with Octopus yet. Octopus has ample amount of community based steps and first class steps out of the box that make it VERY powerful. Octopus is very customizable in how you handle deployments. Its really up to the end user to define what standard their business requires and Octopus makes it very easy to implement. For us we love step templates. Its re-usable code blocks that we can use at scale for thousands of deployments. No need to copy and paste the same code block into hundreds or thousands of deploys that are identical.

Cons:

For the most part Octopus scales really well! We have over 13k projects with ~4k users in the tool and for the most part works fine. Though there are some inherent issues with UI/API performance when dealing with this many projects and users. They are working on these issues. But right now that's our biggest issue. Another topic of improvement would be around how step templates are version controlled. Right now all code in step templates is stored in the Octopus Database. I would love to see this moved to GitHub using the OCL language used for other parts of Octopus Config As Code. Lastly there are no good ways to template deployment processes besides cloning projects. I would love to see some sort of templating capability (similar to how TeamCity handles it). This would help greatly with scalability.

Reasons for switching to Octopus Deploy

At the time it was much more cost effective to use Octopus Deploy over UCD. I would say the gap has shortened some now. But at the same time Octopus Deploy has grown much more than UCD has. Also UCD had reliability issues with its Database. Octopus seems to still have some scale and performance issues at large sizes. But they are actively working on that.

Nicolas S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed May 2022

Great tool for deployment and run automated tasks

Great experience overall. Awesome tool to design automated tasks, really versatile. It is really easy to design a workflow with different steps and bind them together. I'm right now in the process of implementing a deployment to a Kubernetes Cluster and everything goes smooth so far. One thing I love is the support mechanism that Octopus Deploy has. Every time I have doubts or I don't know how to do something, I just ask in the community and in less than a couple of hours I get a response.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use and how versatile it is.

Cons:

I have nothing bad to say at the moment. I've been using it for just a month now so I'm just getting used to it.

Reasons for choosing Octopus Deploy

Automation and deployments in one tool, plus the cost.

Verified

Reviewer

Insurance

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed June 2022

Great deployment product

awesome! make my work going

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Friendly user interface, deployment log is easy to read.

Cons:

runs slowly, other than that, it's pretty good to use

Jason T.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2022

Trusting the Octopod

Octopus handles deployments to our largest clients with multiple environments and servers. Feeling confident that I can hit a button and be sure four servers in three different countries on another continent are going to be safely updated is awesome. It saves so much time and provides reliability and confidence.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

It gives me the confidence to deploy applications and updates in a reliable and repeatable way. We are a small company so our skills are spread across many roles. Having Octopus Deploy handle deployments is like having an extra, reliable team member who takes care of deployments.

Cons:

I was initially confused by the terminology as I was new to CI/CD. Once I progressed past that stage there were no worries.

Reasons for choosing Octopus Deploy

I learnt it faster and it was flexible. We could use it the way we wanted in a simple way.

Gary K.

Verified reviewer

Online Media

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Great tool. Good value as long as you watch the licensing.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has an easy to use interface and straightforward deployment configurations out of the box, robust features for managing complex deployment processes, seems to support for a wide range of platforms, and detailed reporting and visibility into deployment status. Also good and helpful documentation

Cons:

Seems to be potentially more expensive the larger the deployments, there is a bit of a learning curve for advanced features.

Verified

Reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed January 2022

Octopus - when deployment becomes easier every day

Very good. I realy like this tool I dont how much experience with others, but i am happy my company is using this one. I think o know this well.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use. Fast. I think its reliable. Most of the things are straightforward. I like the way portal is build, where options are etc.

Cons:

Basically we can improve each part but hard to recall. For example if i am in variables, maybe some compare functions ? Whenever i work with with varaibles, lots of libraries, sometimes it becomes hard. Also why i can leave empty scope, and everyone can updated ?? this is a security bridge i think. I dont like when octopus is loosing connection (* health check). Sometimes i have issues with the service. Even if se to automatic, it doesnt start after windows server reboot. When i pick a lot of machines during deployment ( target ) would be nice to type like in the search, or role attachment, just a names or like *name. When i have lots of machines to exclude would be easier. nothing very urgent. Process creation - adding steps, moving, sometimes but irritating. You know to know the tricks. What would be awesome - interacive checks. Like i attach a role in the process and a message that currently not attached or a variable and some hints. Adding description to the variables could be easier. I realy dont like that when i do even a small change in the process i edit a script or something i have to create a new release. Audit log could be improved. I alredy shared my ideas on the previous page. I guess integration with AWS maybe could be more usefull.

Reasons for choosing Octopus Deploy

i wasnt involved

Reasons for switching to Octopus Deploy

i did switch the company

Andrew G.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Best CD tool I have ever used.

We would not be able to function without it at this point. It helps release management team stay in sync, it automated our deployments so DevOps does not have to work so hard. It is focused on deployment, Jenkins is not strong in this regard, so it was a big win there.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love how easy it is to set up projects and the visibility that this tool offers. I liked it so much that I brought it over to my new organization. I have been using this tool for about 4 years now and have seen the gambit with it. Deployments were a mess before we introduced this in both companies. I love the Tenent feature, that really changed the world for me. Customer/Production management became a breeze at that point.

Cons:

There are some things I do not like about octopus, but they are not deal breakers. The view can some times get a little wonky when you are changing releases and pushing different versions all the time, and the "view" can become out of sync with reality.

Reasons for choosing Octopus Deploy

Octopus had a much better price, and Harness dashboard just could not matchup to the visibility that Octopus gives you.

Reasons for switching to Octopus Deploy

It was to hard to get visibility into what was being deployed, and we accidentally wiped our production account with it once. We made the switch after that. I love that octopus has manual intervention steps to gate mistakes like that.

David C.

Verified reviewer

Market Research

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2022

Excellent product

Simply fantastic, a must have part of web development for me. This product simplifiies release procedure. so now we can release many times a day if we want. So for example releasing to our test environments are now fully automated. (This probably happens 10 times a day)

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Octpus Deploy is a very simple concept that is elegantly executed. I really like the ability to configure releases, (they can be either simple or complex). Once configured, it's then a very simple process to move a release from one environment to another. Octopus Deploy does not dictate infrastructure, so it's up to you as to what environments etc you want. As the needs of our organization has changed so has the release process. Octopus Deploy is straight forward and simple to configure. The ease of use of creating releases. . I love the fact that Octopus Deploy removes any drama about releasing or "rollbacking" software. It just works.

Cons:

Not a big fan of version immutability, but I understand it and have accepted it.

Verified

Reviewer

Research

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

Octopus Deploy is an exceptional deployment orchestration solution

Excellent! I really like this product and it makes my life easier as far as deployments go. I would highly recommend it!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I have found Octopus Deploy to be a very well thought out and intuitive deployment orchestration system. It is very easy to use and quite simple to get started. Originally it was focused on .net / Windows platforms but now can be used to deploy anything to Windows or Linux. We use it for both. It is a very stable, reliable and easy to use product and I highly recommend it.

Cons:

For many years my organisation has been given a free community licence as a not-for-profit, but this is now changing and we will have to pay starting 2022. Even so, I think it is still worth the money by a long shot. The only issue we have at the moment is we need to upgrade to a newer SQL Server version to support the latest version of Octopus Deploy as there is some security vulnerability in older versions. Due to Microsoft licensing and infrastructure issues, this is dragging on and we are trapped on a certain version for now.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2023

Fantastic Enterprise CD Tool

I am quite happy with the tool, its very cost effective, lite and community support is very good in terms of integration with AWS, Azure etc and other Devops toolkit.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I very much like the dashboard and space concept in octopus deploy, its so simple yet very relevant.

Cons:

Sharing the resource like step template or feed etc. across space is something I feel would be very helpful from the platform team perspective.

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