# GoCD Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is GoCD the right Continuous Integration solution for you? Explore 7 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/147886/GoCD/reviews --- GoCD 4.3 (7) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/147886/GoCD/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated January 14th, 2026 # Reviews of GoCD Ease of use 3.7 Customer Service 3.8 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-7 of 7 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Founder / CEO Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "gocd - Totally changed our approach to development" September 30, 2019 5.0 Really a great product. As we had previously ported some-but-not all of our application stack to linux, once we had gocd up and running we were able to use it to accelerate and reduce errors in the porting of the hardest elements of our application over to linux. This isn't an advertised feature of the product or anything, but it's CD concepts are so clear that it became natural to just start out projects in GOCD rather than getting something working and then bringing it into the CI/CD platform. This is the real advantage of GOCD in our mind- everything is oriented so much around the pipline it lets you change your thinking to how things sound be, and then immediately do stuff in a more high-quality and automatic way. Pros We previously used a version of an earlier product from same company (thoughtworks) called cruisecontrol (CC). We used CC for many years and it was a good product. When we started porting some of our servers from windows to linux as an experiment, we decided to simultaneously evaluate better continuous integration offerings to cruise control as a way to better-test our linux infrastructure. We looked at a number of products such as jenkins, travis and giblab. gocd was a pretty new offering at the time, but we felt it was a better solution than our existing CC installation and other CD/CI alternatives such as jenkins or travis. As we were in parallel porting our entire application to linux, and our application consistented of many different internal and external libraries, we wanted to be able to link everything up in a native CD (continuous development) platform from the get go. gocd didn't have the prettiest UI/UX (it's improved somewhat, but still takes a few days/weeks to get used to for newbies), but because it's a from-scratch CD product it can do things natively that many other platforms do in a more round-about way. it's pipelining concept being a fundamental configuration unit really matches how developers and designers think about and deploy software. Because the pipeline is a core element of gocd and everything is sort of designed around it, it's really quite thoughtfully done and intuitive from a conceptual standpoint. Cons The configuration UI/UX is a bit clunky. This is a big area of focus for improvement for them, and it's gotten better but as far as software offerings in late 2019 go there's some to be desired. It probably took at least a week for average person to get comfortable using the web interface. You can skip the web interface and config directly from either command line, xml and they do support git-management of both. (we don't use these presently for other reasons, but they're there) Alternatives considered [Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/)[GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/)[Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Reason for choosing GoCD Pipeline as a core concept was done more clearly than other platforms/alternatives Equal support for private and public cloud setups. Review Source LP Luís P. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My experience from 3+ years ago" June 25, 2020 4.0 Overall it was ok, we also used travis and jenkins at the time. travis was in another league, it's paid, a service, it had another approach, jenkins was worst than gocd, they created the blue project to make it better and it wasn't perfect, but for us it became better than gocd, but we still had projects using gocd. Later i left the company and started to use gitlab pipelines, GitHub workflows, travis, hosted solutions so i'm not very familiar with gocd nowadays, but at the time it was one the best solutions i used. Pros At the time i used it (it was a 3+ years ago), it had the best UI comparing with most of the competitors, at least the self deployed ones. It was easy to use, it supported plugins. Cons It didn't had support for describe our process as code, but we used a plugin for that, that give us some issues at the time that we had to deal with, but no big deal. I remember that we switched to jenkins using theirs Jenkisfile because it had better fit on our workflow. i remember that the deployment process was not the best also. regarding the agents, the replication of them, or how to support more wasn't ideal, i remember that at the time we developed a script to automate that, but it was very tricky. Switched from [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Before the Blue ocean project by jenkins, the gocd UI was better. Review Source AN André N. Principal Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good for small projects, but doesn't scale very well" June 15, 2020 3.0 Mixed feelings about GoCD, as on one side it provides nice visual feedback about the pipelines, on the other side whenever something went wrong it was a pain to fix. It also didn't scale well on our case when the number of pipelines and projects grew. Pros \- free - pipeline graph is nice - multiple pipelines (although single XML config is a problem) - cross platform Cons \- single XML configuration for all pipelines, which is brittle and error prone - no support for declarative pipelines - hard to maintain - user interface is not intuitive - slow - agent setup is cumbersome Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Lead Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "GOCD" February 5, 2020 5.0 Pros GOCD provides most reliable solution for fast delivery. Cons Lots of configurations.some custom plugins does not support Alternatives considered [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Reason for choosing GoCD Most supportive product for java base applications Review Source VR Verified Reviewer DevOps Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "GoCd - Easly deploy your apps" June 10, 2022 4.0 Pros It is easy to connect with github using addons and manage groups and permissions. Cons When you have too many pipelines you might face limitations with gocd config file size. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CTO Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Nice Product" November 4, 2019 4.0 Pros It help lot to manage our continouse delivery process Cons Source integration need to develop for easy connectivity Review Source PN Paul N. Software Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great software for building pipelines the right way" July 19, 2017 5.0 more reliable and reproducible builds. Pros GoCD really encapsulates the true spirit of continuous delivery and makes it easy to do things the right way and harder to set things up the wrong way. Artifacts are only ever built once. Open source is a big plug. Cons Young product, not as many plugins as competitors like Jenkins, Hopefully that will change over time. It also uses a bit more memory than Jenkins which can be a problem if it runs on Windows VM. Also it is written using spring framework which your developers might not be familiar with. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [Continuous Integration](https://www.capterra.com/continuous-integration-software/)