--- title: "CircleCI Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of CircleCI. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if CircleCI is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/circleci-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Automated Testing Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/automation-testing/) / [CircleCI](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/circleci-profile/) / CircleCI Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/circleci-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/circleci-profile/alternatives/) # CircleCI User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 93 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Value for money: 4.2/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 54 reviews (58%) - 4 stars: 37 reviews (40%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (2%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Really good, is one of the small things on the pipelines and projects, that when it uses other solution, I miss the simplicity that circleci provides - CircleCI provides a significant benefit in its user-friendly nature and straightforwardness, allowing developers to easily create, manage, and tailor their workflows through a simplified and intuitive interface that is effortless to set up and use. - CircleCI is very fast, reliable, and has a very slick UI. ### Most mentioned cons - It's a little messy with reduced resolutions if we go to a project and filter it by Branch Name. - 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. - Just the tactics on how they handle customers are something that is lacking. ## CircleCI customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 93 (page 1). ### Battle tested and well documented - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Petr V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Satisfied ;) #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros One of the market leaders. You can bet it is going to be here for at least next few years and your one off implementation and deployment of this service will do for long time without ay significant change and it will serve you reliably. #### Cons For some not_totaly_standartd deployments or integrations it is (as many similar products) a bit tricky. But thanks to the huge community you can find some solution for pretty much everything quite quickly. --- ### Continuously improving over the years - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michael R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Responsive support, much faster builds now I can easily parallelize things with Workflows 2.0. Very easily integrated with GitHub and other code-quality services. Able to build in macOS if necessary. #### Cons I would like the ability to specify resources available to a machine, fine to charge more for this feature. I would like to use Workflows 2.0 with macOS builds. It would also be great to be able to specify which docker images are cached on all executors, fine to charge more for this feature. --- ### Does the job, but lacking in features - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Jeffrey K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It's relatively simple to get started. I like that you can pick between Docker and VMs. It integrates with GitHub nicely. #### Cons The Docker in Docker paradigm doesn't work for us since we use containers. We end up using VMs anyways. I think the configuration language is not that great to use and can quickly get unwieldy for larger CI workflows (especially when repeating jobs with different parameters). There are also outages at least once a quarter. --- ### automated test do it right - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alvaro I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - Is integrated with several tools like slack - Configure a project is simple and quick, and most of the cases once you have done this, you will not need to log in into the platform. You will have build going in a couple of hours. - I have it running in several project and works really well. #### Cons - Pricing could be a little bit better I guess or have a better free plan for beginners, I don't think any cons of using CircleCI actually. --- ### Great build/deploy tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Darrell "Jeremy" F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros CircleCI 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. #### Cons The 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. --- ### CI/CD with few lines - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Yasmany C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Integration with IOs allow us to build and test the mobile apps and automatize our whole CI/CD pipeline #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Sine 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 #### Cons The ui really needs to cleanup a bit, make it simpler. Also their need to provide more integrations with third party tools --- ### I love CI about as much as Circle does - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Noah S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons Lack 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. --- ### CircleCi has changed how we develop - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ryan M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall I've been really happy with the performance from circleci. Even their free plan has been great. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Has 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. --- ### Easy to use and powerful - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Travis H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons Not 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. --- ### Powerful CI / CD platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Filip T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons Circle 2.0 offers improved customizability, added more features, but for small and simple projects it's not as easy to setup anymore. --- ### One of the best Cloud CI tools - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Gaspar R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Simplicity of use, integrations and features make CircleCI one of the best CI systems in existence #### Cons Pricing goes really high when you need to do some custom solution, like have self-hosted runners #### Reasons for switching to CircleCI Cloud-based turn --- ### Seamless Continuous Integration - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Manon S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's automation for testing and deployment is fantastic. It saved me a lot of time by running tests automatically after every code push. #### Cons It took me a while to get my build scripts working correctly the first time. --- ### Best UX for SaaS CI - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Steve P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros When I first starting using CircleCI with version 1 I loved the simplicity. Every code would execute the commands in a relatively simple yml file. Version 2 is far more powerful and flexible. It took me a while to get used to but I still find Circle's ease of use to make it my choice over others. #### Cons Version 2 has a lot of complexity that can make it hard to get started with. Their Orbs concept is bringing back some simplicity. #### Reasons for switching to CircleCI I found the Travis UI very confusing. --- ### Best CI I've ever used - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Apparel & Fashion - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros -Docker support is great when using container based builds -Competitive pricing and free tier -Snappy / Responsive UI #### Cons -2.0 is missing features in 1.0 -Poor slack notification support -yml format is strange. More complex commands can be very ugly --- ### Easy continuous build and deployment system - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Andy B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We have automated unit testing, deployment and managing pipelines so no one has to do it manually. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to manage pipelines and deployment to multiple servers and to manage versions from GitHub. Easy to restart pipelines or particular deployments. #### Cons New UI feels less intuitive than the old one, but does work well. Sometimes errors can be hard to track down, but think that may be our configuration / setup rather than CircleCI itself. --- ### CircleCI CI/CD - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Michal R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It automates many repetitive tasks such as running the tests, building and deployment to various environments and it makes my life easier. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I 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. #### Cons Not 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. --- ### A nice CI Tools - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Circle CI is a very nice CI tools, especially if you need to build on Apple devices #### Cons It's a bit pricy regarding other service that can be opensource --- ### Using CircleCI - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Luis S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It has been a good experience overall, very minor downtimes. It has really helped me and our team to perform continious integration for our projects. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It let's you automate continuos integration fairly easy by just using a YML file. You can setup many different stages and rules for these stages to have different development environments. It's fairly easy to learn and implement. It integrates very well with Github. #### Cons Have seen a few downtimes in the last couple of months. --- ### One of the best CI tools available - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Piyush J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Apparel & Fashion - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Full customization and scripting abilities. Using tools like bash scripts, SSH, and Node, running almost anything upon committing some code to GitHub becomes possible. Integration with all of our favorite services. GitHub and Slack in particular are crucial to our business and CircleCI's integration is seamless and full-featured. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to configure via a YAML file Sends email notifications without the use of external services Not only runs our tests, but also triggers our deployments #### Cons Proactive communication about updates and breaking changes Questions to account rep can sometimes take too long (for us -- > 1 day) to respond --- ### FIrst time using a CI tool, and CircleCI delivers! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This 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 #### Cons Not 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. --- ### Introduced Circle CI 2.0 (Beta) - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - Workflows is great tool for enabling parallel tasks - deep customization for cache controls - easily introduced deploy workflows #### Cons - config file tends to get verbose and too long ( I want to have some ways to separate concerns among some jobs) --- ### Good UI and easy to use build system - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Compared to some other build systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI has a much better, more modern UI. It's easy to do the most common tasks, such as check on a failed build, or restart a build. #### Cons Some setup tasks involved in creating a build or modifying its configuration could be easier, but this was never a hindrance to me using the app. --- ### CircleCI for build/deployment - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Harmandeep S. - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons The learning curve is steep for some developers. It has two versions of the software, which sometimes makes it difficult to manage. --- ### Simple and good integrated with GitHub tool for CI/CD - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Karol Ż. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. In general works and do it's job in small, experimental projects. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to start, good integration with GitHub, free for small and open-source projects. #### Cons The pricing is a bit higher compared to its competitors. --- ### Good and solid product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Support for OSX environment and Docker platform, very fast builds, advanced cache, up to date software. Web UI is not so bad, but i love the simplicity and configuration possibilities, that eg. 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