# CircleCI Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is CircleCI the right Automated Testing solution for you? Explore 93 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/reviews --- CircleCI 4.6 (93) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/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 March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of CircleCI Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.4 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews GV Gordon V Technical LeadInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “CircleCI is always a go-to choice for CI/CD for all projects at Loop11.“ April 15, 2026 MS Manon S Associate software engineerComputer Software, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It took me a while to get my build scripts working correctly the first time.“ August 3, 2024 MS Manon S Associate software engineerComputer Software, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It's automation for testing and deployment is fantastic.“ August 3, 2024 Tushar B Platform EngineerBanking, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Another one would be the execution time, using it with terraform to run plans & eventually apply, it can take hours if your infrastructure is complex & there is no way to actually divide it in stages.“ October 6, 2022 NT Nikhil Kumar T Software EngineerComputer Software, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “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.“ February 6, 2023 JK Jeffrey K Engineering ManagerInternet, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “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).“ May 6, 2022 Tushar B Platform EngineerBanking, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “For beginners or pros, this workflow management tool is pretty simple yet futuristic.“ October 6, 2022 JK Jeffrey K Engineering ManagerInternet, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The Docker in Docker paradigm doesn't work for us since we use containers.“ May 6, 2022 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 93 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Luis Carlos C. Data Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good for CI/CD and also for automating smaller tasks" March 24, 2022 5.0 We use CircleCI for our CI/CD pipeline almost every single day. It manages and runs automated tests for all the remote branches, so we can catch issues before they escalate. When ever something gets merged into our dev, staging or master branches, it auto tests, builds and deploy all the infrastructure with Terraform and pushes the newer version to docker. Pros The pipelines can be broken into different steps, which makes debugging, managing and approving individual phases way easier. Also, looking at the logs and being able to share static permalinks to them is quite useful when you have larger teams. We all can see the progress of the building pipelines in real time and can debug and manage them. Great tool over all. Cons Sometimes it fails and doesn't immediately let's you go to debug the issue. Also, some settings for the VMs are tricky to set up right. Alternatives considered [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Review Source GV Gordon V. Technical Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Speed up CI/CD with CircleCI" April 15, 2026 5.0 Pros CircleCI is always a go-to choice for CI/CD for all projects at Loop11. The documentation is pretty comprehensive and super easy to get started. A really cool feature is that you can split tests and run them in parallel to speed things up. Cons We really never have any problems with CircleCI so nothing to complain at all. If I have to be really nitpicky, I would say I can't copy a job output on my phone (Chrome iOS) so I can paste into a Claude Code remote-session so Claude can fix it for me. Alternatives considered [GitHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/) Reason for choosing CircleCI CircleCI has great documentation is easy to get started. Review Source Carey W. Chief Information Security Officer Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Easy-to-use UI and features for configuring the CI" March 30, 2022 3.0 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. Pros Excellent 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. Cons Nothing 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. Review Source RU Ricardo U. Team Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simple and strong software" October 30, 2024 5.0 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 Pros I like that is really easy to use, for multiple platforms, easy solutions, good support lot of info, and if you know simple bash commands is really easy to build your own pipeline Cons Sometimes the UI is not perfect, but their are updating it and lastly it improved a lot Switched from [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) we wanted a cloud solution that was able to run also mobile builds Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Platform Engineer Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CircleCI - For Simple, Easy & feature rich CI/CD" October 6, 2022 5.0 Overall I love CircleCI UI, ease of deployment & it is feature rich. Availability & execution parameterization can be improved. Pros Best part of circleCI is the ease of continuous delivery feature it offers, it's very easy to integrate it with GitHub too. Another pro of CircleCI over other CI/CD tool like Jenkins is the simple yet feature rich UI. For beginners or pros, this workflow management tool is pretty simple yet futuristic. It also makes running automated test cases for different branches really easy before deployment. Cons There is room for improvement in areas where Jenkins is already winning, like skipping parts of execution stages that are not required every time new change is pushed. Another one would be the execution time, using it with terraform to run plans & eventually apply, it can take hours if your infrastructure is complex & there is no way to actually divide it in stages. Better central monitoring & dashboard for different projects can be helpful, somewhat like Jenkins shows rainy, cloudy or clear skies signifying project health. Alternatives considered [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Reason for choosing CircleCI Better UI, reviews & average cost. Futuristic & continuous development is there from the team. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the top CI/CD service" August 5, 2021 5.0 Pros With a Github/Bitbucket account, it is easy to setup the CircleCI account. It automatically detects all the repositories. We can easily add the configuration file and start using the pipelines. Various customisation and parallelisation options are provided. Lot of possibilities for automation and customisation. Overall a good product. Cons It was bit of a hassle to start first, the configuration were not very easy. Also struggled a bit to manage various Github organisations. Once easy and setup, it's easy and fast. Switched from [Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/) Wanted to try CircleCI. But Travis seems to be more easy to configure opensource repositories. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Head of Engineering Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Simple & efficient CI" May 5, 2023 4.0 Migrations was easy and straightforward. It works well. We were a bit startled because of the security issue they faced and we had to renew all of the secrets which was painful. Apart from that incident, we're happy. It's never been down for us (as opposed to Github). Pros The setup of pipelines is very easy, especially with the orbs. Each pipeline is always code, so it's automatically versioned. We moved away from CodePipelines from AWS because it was too click-intensive. Cons The permissions are simple: everything is copied from GitHub in our case. What seems at first convenient ends up quite confusing. And it's easy to get lost with security contexts. It would have been nice to be able to see who can perform what action from the Circle CI UI itself. 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 CircleCI It was well established, simple, and seemed to integrate well with Github. Review Source TI Tahmidul I. CTO E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great once you're all set up" September 29, 2020 4.0 Pros \- Easy to understand yaml config format - Integration with GitHub - Workflows for powerful deployment and release strategies - Good community support Cons \- I am not the biggest fan of the recent UI update. If the "expand" toggle is set to true, everything jumps resulting in me clicking things unintentionally. - Many of us have workflows that we do not use on every push (e.g. deploying to testing). With the next UI changes, the UI has a timer column which is always updating, why??? - Why can't I select a default project? When I now browse to circleci, I always have to select a project. Most developers only ever work on one project at a time, let us choose one! Alternatives considered [GitHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/) Reason for choosing CircleCI GitHub actions did not support click to approve workflows at the time. Although, now they do offer a viable solution, it may be something we look into. Review Source OO Ogaga O. Security Analyst Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Continuous Integration and Deployment made easy" October 23, 2021 5.0 Pros It's easy to integrate most of the industry products with CircleCI, including tools used for Quality and Security. You only need some level of programming to get through the integration process. It works well for our model and we do not need the full DevOps suite to use Circle CI Cons There is nothing to dislike about this product. Alternatives considered [Bitbucket](https://www.capterra.com/p/233341/Bitbucket/) Switched from [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Jenkins was having a lot of complications integrating with newer industry tools and some members of the team were not comfortable using Jenkins. Review Source Dylan C. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A very capable CI system with a lot of quality of life features " January 5, 2024 5.0 Pros CircleCI is very fast, reliable, and has a very slick UI. I like how easily it integrated with our version control system and how simply we could build useful automations into our pipeline. Cons Although it has a decent free offering, as with most CI's, CircleCI's pricing scales quite quickly once you leave the free tier. Review Source MS Manon S. Associate software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Seamless Continuous Integration" August 3, 2024 5.0 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. Review Source GR Gaspar R. Infrastructure Engineer Media Production Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the best Cloud CI tools" January 19, 2023 5.0 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 Switched from [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Cloud-based turn Review Source CM Chippy M. Software Developer Airlines/Aviation Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "CircleCI for Easy deployment and Testing " September 14, 2022 4.0 It’s simple with an automated build feature. Pros It’s test driven environment makes development and testing much easier. Integration is also easy with just one config file. Cons On free plan, the options available are very less when compared to other alternatives. Switched from [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/)[TeamCity](https://www.capterra.com/p/136011/Teamcity/) Continuous Integration Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director of Marketing Hospitality Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Circle CI trusted by FB" January 15, 2019 4.0 Pros Circle CI is being trusted by FB for React, and Fastlane. So if it works for them I think that is a great testament to it. Cons Doesn't allow as many languages and environments out of the box as Travis CI does. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Ease of use and fast" November 3, 2017 4.0 Pros Realy fast, and requires almost none configuration to get going, I didn't know much about it at the start, but then o learned a lot very fast. Cons People do not get its importance at first, it's a real pain to make them understand why should them to spend time on this sort of thing. Review Source NCM Noman Chowdhury M. Founder Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the best automated tools for a developer" September 22, 2022 5.0 Pros Circle CI is the best Continuous integration platform that I have ever used. It is fast and reliable, and it allows me to set up different tests for projects and have them run in an automated manner. The interface is clean and intuitive, which has made it a breeze to get started with and learn the ropes with this tool! Cons It makes developer life so much easy. So it's 100% recommended . You will never regret of using it. Review Source TM Timothy M. VP Of Development Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great tool" October 8, 2020 4.0 We have been able to do some incredible things with Circle CI as our continuous integration and deployment tool. Definitely recommend! Pros The flexibility of configuring build environments for various technologies stacks and needs is key. Circle CI provides some getting started assistance through documentation and tooling, and once you’re past that there really is very little in terms of constraints holding you back from near infinite flexibility. It’s a great service! Cons The threshold of minimum knowledge required to get started is a bit higher than some of the competitors. Review Source OT Oystein T. Developer Events Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good product for our ci needs" September 29, 2020 5.0 Pros Easy to use and mac build system. Docker integration Cons User system. Only github and sometimes that is a struggle Switched from [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) We didnt want to selfhost anymorr Review Source DL Dennis L. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "CircleCI is a blessing" August 3, 2019 4.0 CircleCI is crucial to what we're doing and it's powerful. I've enjoyed using it for awhile now. Pros It's powerful, it's got lots of features, and the customization is limitless. CircleCI improves the developer experience many times over. It's also fairly reliable, and makes handling a large project simpler. Cons It can go down sometimes, debugging can be a bit hard and cryptic. Support is also fairly lackluster. Alternatives considered [Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/) Reason for choosing CircleCI CircleCI is cheaper. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "CircleCI smoothened our provision process!" April 10, 2019 4.0 It was great, as CircleCI helped to save our time. Also, it has a nice interface plus webhooks integration for us to build notifications center without any trouble! Pros CircleCI is a great software for provisioning software or applications before publishing them on the production environment. It speeds up our provisioning process and allows us to debug our applications really well! Saved us a lot of time so we can work on something better! Cons The pricing of concurrent jobs and containers is too high, I can set up one myself using other hosting providers at a way cheaper price. Review Source vS vikash S. Frontend Developer Management Consulting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "My favourite tool for continuous integration :)" May 22, 2018 4.0 Pros 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. Cons it 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 Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Co Founder Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great product to test and automate for teams" March 29, 2020 4.0 CircleCI helps organize our build pipeline and catch issues early that would cause problems in production. Pros CircleCI is great for doing pipelines and integrating commits from each member of our teams. Great error reporting helps identify errors right away. Cons Their mobile experience needs improvement. Not everything is available on their mobile app and a computer is required for some tasks. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good UI and easy to use build system" August 1, 2018 5.0 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. Review Source HS Harmandeep S. Software Engineer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "CircleCI for build/deployment" April 25, 2018 4.0 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. Review Source JB Jonathan B. ML Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "excellent product!" May 20, 2022 5.0 Pros Love this software we use it for automated unit test checks before deploying and it works great! Cons Honestly, I don't have anything in particular that I disliked, you guys have a great product Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [DevOps](https://www.capterra.com/devops-software/)[Automated Testing](https://www.capterra.com/automated-testing-software/)[Continuous Integration](https://www.capterra.com/continuous-integration-software/)