# Page 3 | CircleCI Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 3 - 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 # Page 3 - Reviews of CircleCI ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 51-75 of 93 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use MA Mehak A. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of te best on cloud CI/CD for all kinds of application." April 27, 2020 5.0 Used it with a number of applications, the GIT integration was very smooth. It is used for the deployment of the master on test and production environment by simple pull request creation and branch merge. Pros The great configurational freedom to the user makes it suitable for any and all kinds of applications. The step by step view provided is very helpful UI to track the whole process. The YML templates make it very easy to set up and the git configuration part is very well documented and just a few steps can make it work. Cons The pricing of the tool is a bit on the higher side compared to its competitors. Docker support is not complete. Review Source AB Andy B. Head of Engineering Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy continuous build and deployment system" April 30, 2021 4.0 We have automated unit testing, deployment and managing pipelines so no one has to do it manually. 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. Review Source Anuoluwapo O. Software Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "My experience using Circle CI" September 21, 2017 5.0 Pros Awesome UI/UX. Excellent customer service support and ease of use. There is also a constant update on the product based on feedback which is not common with most products. Cons The developer community of Circle CI is not so strong compared to some other product. The have taken feedback on this and are already improving it. Review Source KS Krista S. Associate Back End Engineer Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "CircleCI enables continuous integration" April 26, 2022 4.0 Pros I like how easy it is to see failed tests and to re-run the test suite, if needed. Cons I don't have any problems using CircleCI -- sometimes the test suites take a long time to run, but I think that has more to do with how robust our test suite is than anything to do with CircleCI. Review Source MR Michal R. Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "CircleCI CI/CD " September 26, 2020 4.0 It automates many repetitive tasks such as running the tests, building and deployment to various environments and it makes my life easier. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CTO Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very helpful and resonable pricing plans" October 19, 2020 5.0 I'm developing and managing various web services and mobile apps in a small startup. CircleCI is essential for productivity and maintaining code quality with my team. Pros It provides many useful features, and I can use most of them with a free plan. Customer service is also excellent. Cons 'Workflows' is useful, but it can not be tested locally by its nature. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CTO Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A nice CI Tools" November 14, 2022 4.0 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 Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Excellent Service. A tool that can not be present on your stack." September 12, 2017 4.0 Pros Fast, seamlessly, easy to implement. Well documented. Move from 1.0 to 2.0 was a piece of cake with a ton of improvements. Cons We are still fighting to get docker-compose to support cache but we know how hard is to enable caching on docker layers. Review Source LS Luis S. Software Engineer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Using CircleCI " December 4, 2019 4.0 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. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Very Good" September 20, 2017 5.0 Pros CircleCI is a very good tool that comes with a very nice UI. In addition it is pretty intuitive to use. Cons Maybe the free plan could be enhanced for young start-ups as they often try to cut costs everywhere. Review Source PJ Piyush J. Software Engineer Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "One of the best CI tools available" July 18, 2017 5.0 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. 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 Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Lead Backend Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: ### "Pricey, but a competitor in the continuous integration space." December 14, 2017 4.0 Pros The UI and integration is easy and very straight forward. Were able to get builds going in a couple hours. Cons When picking a CI to use for our business we tried a lot of the big names and CircleCi was great except for the price point for how fast the builds were. Alternatives like Strider gave CircleCi a bad taste. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Intelligence Developer Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "FIrst time using a CI tool, and CircleCI delivers!" February 7, 2021 5.0 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. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer DevOps engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A CI/CD saas for the future" November 24, 2017 5.0 Pros Fast and resilient, especially when the release of version 2.0, we are able to benefit from docker layers caching..our build time improved by 70%. Cons sometimes it goes crazy especially in service discoveries since we are using docker compose to build and orchestrate ci env. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Introduced Circle CI 2.0 (Beta)" September 21, 2017 5.0 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) Review Source Permana J. Backend Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Very good CI/CD tools" October 31, 2019 5.0 I'm on free plan of CircleCI and the software is very useful. Pros I use the free version and it is very good software. You can download CircleCI to your local machine by using docker and then run the test on local before committing your code. Cons Documentation needs a bit of work. So far so good, but needs more explanation about how to set it up on a certain framework Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Very easy" July 31, 2019 4.0 Pros The software works great, is fast, and extremely easy to use. Cons None, but I believe paid options could be less expensive Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Support Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Continuous integration on the cloud" November 7, 2018 5.0 Pros It's an excellent unobtrusive CI that keeps developers writing software rather than waiting for tests to finish. It can quickly run through thousands of tests and send alerts once complete. The UI is great and easy to use. Cons The config is probably the worst of the cloud CI software. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer QA Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Continuous Integration done right" August 24, 2018 5.0 Pros Robust, easy to use, great documentation, great feature set even on a free plan with sizable 1,500 build minutes per month (quite a lot for smaller projects). Cons As you grow, cost rises quite rapidly as well, especially if you require multiple containers run in parallel. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Site Reliability Architect Biotechnology Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A cross-platform CICD tool for everyone" July 18, 2019 4.0 Pros Multi-architecture builds, full Docker support, and streamlined declarative pipeline config made me feel right at home! Cons Could use a better comparative analysis marketing doc to explain differences from folks coming from Travis-CI to better understand the advantages. Review Source Nick P. Android Developer Intern Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Novice review" August 27, 2017 4.0 Pros Ease of use and the extensibility of having your tests ran upon pushing without having to configure the .yml file to find tests. Cons The biggest con of the software would have to be the initial documentation on how to set up. This can get kind of confusing. Review Source KŻ Karol Ż. Owner Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Simple and good integrated with GitHub tool for CI/CD" October 13, 2022 4.0 In general works and do it's job in small, experimental projects. 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. Review Source Denis D. Data Scientist Banking Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Gets the tests done" September 29, 2020 5.0 I code for a number of repositories that are integrated with CircleCI to run several integration, schema and unit tests. I have never had to configure it, and I imagine that the work required to do so is non-negligible. However, after that, it's very easy to use and automate a very boring, yet very important part our processes. Pros \- Integration with GitHub and Slack - Automation of several types of tests (schema validation, integration, unit tests, etc) - Easy to monitor the results of tests while they're still running Cons Perhaps due to the high volume of simultaneous users, sometimes it would be faster to run tests locally rather than on circleci Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good and solid product" September 15, 2017 5.0 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. Semaphore CI provides Review Source Garrett S. Business System Consultant Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "null" November 2, 2017 5.0 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/)