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Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/travis-ci-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/travis-ci-profile/alternatives/) # Travis CI Review From $69/month Free version Free trial 1 plan On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Travis CI 4.1 [(129)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/travis-ci-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $69.00 per feature per month Top Alternatives ### About Travis CI Travis CI is a cloud-based continuous integration platform designed to help developers test projects and update production or staging as the tests pass. Key features include authentication, change management, role-based permissions, data synchronization, continuous deployment, custom development and testing management. Teams using Travis CI can push their codes to the cloud platform and gain greater control over security by integrating the system with Github.com. The solution uses OAuth for authentication, which enables managers to sync user permissions to ensure team members only have access to the necessary repositories. Supervisors can use SAML and LDAP to manage user access. The platform utilizes a 'clean room', which lets businesses, where each build is run in a clean, new consistent environment. ## Travis CI User Interface ## Popular Travis CI Alternatives Main Product Travis CI 4.1 [(129)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/travis-ci-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 3.92Ease of use - 3.86Value for money - 3.32Customer support - 4.16Functionality Pricing Starting at $69.00 per month Alternative Product [GitLab](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/gitlab-profile/) 4.6 [(1227)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/gitlab-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.37Ease of use - 4.48Value for money - 4.20Customer support - 4.57Functionality Pricing Starting at $29.00 per month Alternative Product [Site24x7](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/) 4.7 [(381)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.56Ease of use - 4.50Value for money - 4.49Customer support - 4.63Functionality Pricing Starting at $10.00 per month Alternative Product [Cycloid](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/cycloid-profile/) 5.0 [(2)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/cycloid-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 5.0Ease of use - 5.0Value for money - 5.0Customer support - 5.0Functionality Pricing Starting at €29.00 per month Alternative Product [GitHub](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/github-profile/) 4.8 [(6203)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/github-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.41Ease of use - 4.63Value for money - 4.34Customer support - 4.66Functionality Pricing Starting at $4.00 per month Alternative Product [Bitbucket](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ide/bitbucket-profile/) 4.6 [(1348)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ide/bitbucket-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.42Ease of use - 4.50Value for money - 4.28Customer support - 4.45Functionality Pricing Starting at $3.30 per month ## Travis CI Pricing and Plans Starting price: $69.00 per month Free Trial Free Version Basic $69.00 per feature, per month No plan information available ## Travis CI Features - Popular features found in Continuous Integration Automated Testing Continuous Delivery Continuous Deployment Debugging - More features of Travis CI Access Controls/Permissions API Approval Workflow Authentication Build Log Change Management Collaboration Tools Configuration Management Continuous Integration Dashboard Data Synchronization KPI Monitoring Projections Quality Assurance Release Management Reporting/Analytics Role-Based Permissions Testing Management Version Control ## Travis CI Integrations Project Monitor Integration rated undefined from -1 review Positive User Integration rated undefined from -1 review GitHub Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## Travis CI User Reviews ## Travis CI customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.1/5 - Total reviews: 129 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 61 reviews (47%) - 4 stars: 37 reviews (29%) - 3 stars: 22 reviews (17%) - 2 stars: 3 reviews (2%) - 1 star: 6 reviews (5%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.9/5 - Value for money: 3.9/5 - Customer support: 3.3/5 - Functionality: 4.2/5 --- ### CI tool that has a lot of value for the money - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ian M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I started using Travis initially because I needed a way to have consistent builds of our desktop software (built on Electron). Travis has just the tools I needed to make this happen. Doing local builds of the software was processor intensive, I had to go check the status of the build and I was always changing software on my local machine so sometimes builds would fail because I changed something. Travis has completely containerized build machines so you get the same result every time. We now use it for building all our software. I don't know what we'd do without it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros * Affordable (it's priced based on users/seats) * Documentation is solid and easy to follow. I've never needed to contact support. There's good online Q&A since Travis has a large user base. * Versatile (whatever software you're building, there's a recipe for it) * Github integration : you get realtime build status RIGHT in Github which is awesome, once you get your system set up, you rarely ever visit Travis again. It just works. #### Cons There's really nothing I didn't like about Travis. Some of the quirks of Electron were the trickiest things to figure out, but that's not Travis's fault. There's a little learning curve when you go from building locally to building remotely with Travis where you need to understand how to set environment variables and retrieve those values in your config/script. #### Reasons for choosing Travis CI We didn't look at other options. Circle CI would have been the likely comparison but I don't think at the time we made the selection there was much online about Circle CI supporting Electron builds. It may have been possible, but the Electron community was definitely more affiliated with Travis CI. We knew we wanted something hosted, so we didn't look at Jenkins (which, I think, requires you to host and manage it yourself). --- ### CI / CD in a simple way - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: EMANUELE S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. I'm very happy about Travis, until now I found always an answer for each need I had #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 1. Documentation, maybe the most important value 2. Configuration flexibility in particular GIT SSH custom keys, env variables with sensitive information, build trigger (with inline configuration... very useful for testing configurations), machine SSH encrypted keys, configuration imports, custom scripts 3. Easy integration with GitHub #### Cons Permissions check (it's not so clear understand who can build, who can view build history, who can edit configuration). #### Reasons for choosing Travis CI I already knew TeamCity but there wasn't a cloud version when I choosed Travis. Ionic has a ready to use mobile app configuration and we use it. I never had enough time to setup a Travis configuration build successfully a ionic app. --- ### Static matrices and changes to OSS terms mean I cannot recommend the product - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Matthew W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Our initial years with Travis were successful, and we were quite happy with the product. But over time, the lack of flexibility meant struggling to create and deploy our CI definitions. But the part that killed Travis for us was the change to OSS terms late in 2020. We'd already noticed that our queues would become long, particularly if we had many contributors or maintainers working simultaneously. But with the changes in terms, we quickly ran into a scenario where we ran out of hours by mid-month. This left us with an untenable situation; as an OSS project, we have limited funds, and we would quickly run through those if we purchased a plan. As a result, we are within 1-2 weeks of moving off the platform entirely. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros When we first started using the product, it was one of the few that existed, and it provided us exactly the assurances we needed to have predictable, stable software releases. Idempotent runs made it possible to know exactly when and why something failed. #### Cons Since we produce OSS libraries, it's important for us to test against each language version we support. Unfortunately, there is no way in Travis to dynamically create a matrix based on the library/package definition itself. For instance, we produce PHP libraries, and our package management solution, Composer, allows us to specify in the package the versions we support. Unfortunately, when we change those, we also need to remember to change the Travis definitions to reflect those changes. This becomes a source of error very quickly - Travis may report all is green, but it turns out we haven't added the new PHP version to the matrix, so it's a false sense of assurance. On top of that, it's impossible to succinctly make discrete jobs that do different things. For instance, I don't need to run coding standards checks, static analysis, and documentation linting for every single job in the matrix; I really only need to run these once. But to do that, Travis forces me to define env variables for jobs, and then use conditionals to determine what to run. This makes the CI definitions very convoluted, and, if you have a lot of repositories that need to do the same, hard to distribute when you have changes to make. Other CI systems address this. --- ### Largely self-taught, test driven developer - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Griffith R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. It's the core, it's the standard, and it does work fairly well. I'm kind of surprised it isn't as straightforwardly automatic to sort from GitHub, and there are some confusing elements to enabling it (and I don't quite understand why it's not more integrated with GitHub actions but maybe I'm wrong on that) but it's the standard, and automating test suits is crucial to good, maintainable code (especially if maintained by a community). #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It's free if your code is open source and lots of other services (like zenodo, netlify etc.) already sort out interoperability, usually a bit sooner than gitlab. #### Cons It might be a lot quicker/better maintained for non-free use, but the options for testing packages in R, for example, are kind of weak and very slow (assuming the examples I've come across are standard). The fact that they only include python2 by default, plus some permission issues means packages using reticulate (for python/R interoperability) have a bit of a pain to get going (and it takes a long time to test). I guess if default options could be better maintained that would be much appreciated. #### Reasons for choosing Travis CI I didn't choose it, my employer did and to work with colleagues this was the only real option. --- ### My OpenSource projects got accustomed to free CI; Travis is no longer that - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jiří D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. I feel disappointed by the pricing change #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Established service; Easy to configure; Supports macOS and AArch64 Linux #### Cons Pricing structure for free and Open Source projects #### Reasons for choosing Travis CI It was one of the first services of this kind that was available. Afterwards, I never had a sufficient reason to make a switch. --- ### Great product - Pricing is insane for someone on a single team - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Thomas W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Food & Beverages - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Good experience - got hooked on the free trial, but it's time to move on as its costing an arm & a leg. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I really like Travis CI, creating .travis.yml files is easy enough & I love the interface for seeing my build progress. That said I'll be moving off of this platform very shortly. #### Cons The cost is insane - Azure DevOps offers pipelines for free, my AWS sites (5 of them) cost less to host than my Travis CI subscription, AWS has a DevOps implementation that is about $15/mo - even if Travis CI was at $20-$25/mo I would consider it as a solution. #### Reasons for choosing Travis CI I was working through a tutorial on AWS & this was offered as the CI / CD solution, since the trial was free I opted for it. Now that my project is in production though this pricing is my highest cost service & needs to be addressed. --- ### Really simple to use continuous integration. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Elliott L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - 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 We use it to run php unit tests whenever we commit code to a repository. All we have to do is include a file in the root of the project and enable the project in the travis interface. Takes less than 5 minutes to set up fully automated unit testing. Much more easy than setting up your own CI pipeline with the huge amount of different apps that exists. Generous free tier. #### Cons Can be slow at times, documentation can on occasion be more minimal than I would like. As a developer you get used to this though, there are always loads of examples online. #### Reasons for choosing Travis CI Travis works on all major providers. --- ### Past Glory - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Ondřej P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. We started using Travis in September 2016. Over the years we used it for both CI and CD pipelines for most of our applications - we had about 300 pipelines. For many years it was a truly great service. Now days we're trying to move away as fast as we can. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Worked like charm years ago and did everything we ever wanted to. Neat debugging feature. #### Cons In past 2 years Travis is dying in painful agony. The service is unreliable, sometimes not working for days. Status page is not updated at all. Support is non-existent - time to first response to an issue is a month now. Out of about 20 issues we raised in past year, not a single one was resolved. #### Reasons for choosing Travis CI It was much easier to use then Jenkins and was a great service in the past. --- ### Powerful, free and easy DevOps - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bruce B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Travis hasn't let me down yet. This services handles more than 90% of our builds. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Travis does a few things really well: 1. Documentation - the documentation is extensive and complete, and one never has the feeling that there are "hidden features" that only the power users know about. 2. Speed - waiting for more than a few seconds for a build to start is extremely rare. 3. Deploy integrations - builds can be deployed to a set of services easily. This is probably the easiest way to set up continuous deployment if you're on a tight budget. #### Cons The build environment can be somewhat restrictive, forcing one to choose language-specific base images and not giving access to the underlying VM. --- ### Fair, but unclear - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Charlie M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Industrial Automation - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Good, but can be #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Travis is the only ci tool that have VT-x enabled! It's also well known, simple to use. #### Cons Paid compared to github action. At least it could be cool to have come montlhy free credits, for just a few to maintain some OSS project in RUN mode. Not so configurable: I can't come with my own VM ISO so I'm forced to download all prerequisite package every time for each builds: most of my credits go there... As I'm part of multiple orgs, it's hard to know which credits are spent where. Also, the authorization mecanism is not that clear: I don't know exactly what travis sees from my github infos. #### Reasons for choosing Travis CI No VT-x on the others: I use the others for my non VT-x test suites, so travis is not my first choice when looking at CI for OSS (and even company project where we have our own autoscaled gitlab runners. #### Reasons for switching to Travis CI Travis was free --- Showing 1 - 10 of 129 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/travis-ci-profile/reviews/) ## Travis CI Popular Comparisons [GitHub vs Travis CI](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/github-profile/vs/travis-ci/)[GitLab vs Travis CI](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/gitlab-profile/vs/travis-ci/)[CircleCI vs Travis CI](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/circleci-profile/vs/travis-ci/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/continuous-integration/travis-ci-profile/alternatives/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice