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Buddy

4.8 (178)

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Last updated August 26th, 2026

# Reviews of Buddy

Ease of use

4.8

Customer Service

4.6

## Pros and Cons in Reviews

BZ

Bojan Z

Web devInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“It has streamlined our CI/CD workflows, reduced deployment time, and improved collaboration between developers.“

June 7, 2026

Łukasz G

Development managerInformation Technology and Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years.

“Occasionally, there are problems with the cache, and I must run the pipeline one more time with cache clearing.“

June 5, 2024

BA

Benjir A

Web DeveloperComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months.

“With lightning-fast builds, seamless integrations, and top-notch customer support, Buddy.Works transforms complex workflows into a smooth, efficient process.“

November 2, 2024

Lachlan d

Lead DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years.

“Sometimes our development processes fail unexpectedly, likely a system layer problem beyond our access.“

December 5, 2023

BZ

Bojan Z

Web devInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“The platform is reliable, fast, and has helped us improve our development workflow and release process.“

June 7, 2026

Suluh S

Head of Software EngineerInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months.

“Because Bitbucket has a very annoying pipeline limit, I'm trying to find an external CI/CD that can integrate with Bitbucket.“

January 16, 2023

an

andy n

Head of CloudHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years.

“You can use the intuitive GUI to quickly build out your pipelines and then bring it under source control with a couple of clicks.“

December 4, 2024

SH

Suroor H

Senior EngineerComputer Software, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“Shared variable management can sometimes be tricky, especially when you have multiple pipelines.“

August 7, 2023

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Łukasz G.  
Development manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great tool fo CI/CD"

June 5, 2024

5.0

This is a great choice for continuous integration and continuous delivery for small teams and developers.

Pros

The Buddy interface is comfortable. Pipelines configuration is easy. You can customize pipelines in the UI or in YAML files.

Cons

Occasionally, there are problems with the cache, and I must run the pipeline one more time with cache clearing.

Alternatives considered

[GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

Easy of use, simple and clean user interface.

Switched from

[Bamboo](https://www.capterra.com/p/253795/Bamboo/)

Bamboo was outdated and I was using Buddy already on my private projects.

Review Source

aN

andy N.  
Head of Cloud  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Just try it, you will love it! "

December 4, 2024

5.0

I have used many DevOps platforms in business ranging from small startups to massive global companies and Buddy is my personal favorite. It is simply a nice product to use and you have far more "oh awesome" moments then "$@!?$" moments then with any other tools.

Pros

Buddy is elegant. It has the ability to do complicated things in simple intuitive ways. The combination of being able to hybrid YAML and GUI is a great example. You can use the intuitive GUI to quickly build out your pipelines and then bring it under source control with a couple of clicks. The GUI still works for read only making it easily accessible to less pipeline technical folks while also giving those maintaining the pipeline all the benefits of "as code".

Cons

The dedicated number of workers and price per work is a shame in a cloud world. Would be neat if it was just based on compute hours etc. but maybe with some kind of fair usage policy for concurrency

Alternatives considered

[Buildkite](https://www.capterra.com/p/218862/Buildkite/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

The usability of buddy was far superior and it had richer features.

Switched from

[CircleCI](https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/)

Better overall product with more features we required

Review Source

SW

Stef W.  
Software engineer  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Streamlined CI/CD with powerful workflow automation"

August 20, 2026

5.0

Overall, I've had a great experience with Buddy. It's a solid product that has made our workflow automation and CI/CD processes noticeably smoother and more efficient. I would definitely recommend it to other companies looking to streamline their development and deployment pipelines.

Pros

What stood out to me most was the workflow automation and the CI/CD pipelines. Setting up pipelines feels intuitive and well-organized, making it easy to go from idea to a working automation without complicated configuration. Being able to visually build and adjust workflows saves a lot of time and makes it easy to automate even more complex deployments. This lets us release faster and with more confidence, without the team having to manually perform each step.

Cons

So far, I haven't explored the security features within Buddy itself, so I don't have a strong opinion on that aspect yet. This isn't necessarily a downside of the product — more a reflection of where our usage has focused so far. Once we start using those features, I'll have a better sense of how well they work.

Review Source

RK

Ralf K.  
Manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "This is a toy that you can use for a hobby project"

July 11, 2022

1.0

Absolutely avoid. Spent last year trying to make it work and now the cost of keeping it alive is just too big so swapping as we speak. Last response from support I had... oh wait, I didn't have any.

Pros

WHEN it works, it has a few good features. It allows you to a basic CI/CD for a small projects, that's about it.

Cons

There's about 2h a day their support works, you have to wait for hours to get any response. And once you do 99% of those responses are "not our fault, try removing all projects, all integrations and try again". On the top of that anything more complex that "hello world" runs out of their apparent 2CPU 2GB deployment server. Want more resources? Wait for 24h until dev team has this 2h of work somewhere in India.

Review Source

BZ

Bojan Z.  
Web dev  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Excellent CI/CD Platform with Outstanding Ease of Use"

June 7, 2026

5.0

Our overall experience with Buddy has been excellent. It has streamlined our CI/CD workflows, reduced deployment time, and improved collaboration between developers. The visual interface makes pipeline management straightforward, while the extensive integrations and automation capabilities save a significant amount of time. We would highly recommend Buddy to teams looking for a powerful yet easy-to-use CI/CD solution.

Pros

Buddy makes CI/CD and deployment automation incredibly easy to set up and manage. The visual pipeline builder is intuitive, which significantly reduces the learning curve compared to other CI/CD tools. It integrates seamlessly with Git providers, cloud platforms, and deployment targets, allowing our team to automate builds, tests, and deployments with minimal effort. The platform is reliable, fast, and has helped us improve our development workflow and release process.

Cons

While Buddy is very easy to use and covers most CI/CD needs, it can take some time to fully explore all available features and integrations. The platform is constantly improving, and overall we have been very satisfied with its performance and reliability.

Review Source

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Web Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "One of the easiest ways to build and learn CI/CD"

July 18, 2023

5.0

I have realized the easy to use CI pipeline I've created to save a lot of time deploying my app to a production environment. I was first exposed to CI/CD in general through my role as a Web Developer and used Buddy as my first pipeline builder. The experience was so enlightening that I'm now using it in my personal project to deliver updates to my application in a sophisticated manner. This allows me to spend more time code and strategizing versus the rudimentary manual process I'm used to.

Pros

I like Buddy for the ease of use when you are a budding developer looking to learn CI/CD practices.

Cons

If you're an entry to mid level developer, I feel there is an initial learning curve to learning CI/CD in general. The documentation is satisfactory but it would be improved if each section or sub-section had a "You should know this before reading" bit in the first part of the article. That way a self-taught learner can establish the connection between Buddy and the rest of their stack by understanding key elements that necessitate the use of Buddy or how they are best augmented by what Buddy can do.

Alternatives considered

[GitHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/)[CircleCI](https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

I've used Buddy before but wanted to do light research into alternatives to see what else was out there. I fell back to Buddy because it felt easier to take up. Excluding the prior exposure to this platform, the usability and user experience is well enough that I don't feel like trying another system until my application grows larger.

Review Source

DN

Doug N.  
Lead Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "A must-have automation tool for the non-IT professional"

May 28, 2019

5.0

Overall my experience has been absolutely amazing. I have been able to deploy multiple technology stacks to multiple different environments, integrate PHP unit testing, check my applications' up-time, all while viewing everything in a single interface. Buddy has numerous 1st-party integrations to various platforms and tools to get you started very quickly. But what I have found invaluable is the tools that are made available for developers to create/customize their own integrations via cURL or SSH.

Pros

Buddy makes automation easy for developers who are not IT administrators. Unlike that of some of the other automation platforms, the available presets and hints that each pipeline comes with allows you to develop and customize your deployments and testing with very little learning curve. I would say that I love the user-interface and user-experience the most. The visual representations and animations make the tool feel more complete and polished than some of the competitors.

Cons

Unfortunately I would say that I like least is the cost. As both a full-time developer and a freelance developer, Buddy can provide services to developers of all disciplines. However as a freelance developer who sometimes has to work on a pretty strict budget, some of the entry-level pricing tiers can be a bit steep on a monthly basis.

Alternatives considered

[Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/)[Bitbucket](https://www.capterra.com/p/233341/Bitbucket/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

I chose Buddy because of their "slick interface" and their customer service. I have had a great relationship with their customer service who are prompt and very knowledgable of their craft.

Review Source

AM

André M.  
CTO  
Retail  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "After moving around we found our CI tool"

May 22, 2019

4.0

We have been using it for almost 2 years and it's been great. Now we have 66 configured projects and the structure of pipelines makes it easy for us to maintain all these projects at once.

Pros

Really customer focused, good and fast support, easy to use and its always improving fast with new features. It just wotks :)

Cons

It can be expensive if you need a lot of parallel jobs running. The support with the devs is not 24/7.

Alternatives considered

[CircleCI](https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/)[Semaphore](https://www.capterra.com/p/171934/Semaphore/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

With ideia of pipelines and actions we can reuse some CI configurations for all the projects making it easier to maintain.

Review Source

Mateusz Z.  
Da Boss  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Finally good solution for CI/CD of my WordPress sites"

May 9, 2023

5.0

Pros

It was very easy to connect Buddy to my GitHub projects as well as add additional instructions

Cons

The php debug modules were giving me errors and could not fix it. I try to get rid of php errors before I commit, but still it would be useful to make easy check before deploy.

Switched from

[Branch](https://www.capterra.com/p/162029/Branch/)

More integrations, better pricing for my needs

Review Source

Olivier JM M.  
Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Easy to setup"

December 10, 2019

4.0

Pros

The setup was straight and configuring actions and webhooks was pretty straight forward

Cons

I am still looking for an easy of auto deploying to like digitalocean or Azure from buddy

Reason for choosing Buddy

Simplicity

Switched from

[Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/)

Because of how easy it is to get setup with a graphical user interface to help configure pipelines

Review Source

LB

Luke B.  
Lead Developer  
Leisure, Travel & Tourism  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Effortless Deployments with a Beautiful UI"

January 9, 2025

5.0

Pros

Buddy makes deployments a breeze! The UI is beautiful and intuitive, configurations are easy yet comprehensive, and deployments are incredibly fast. Customer support is responsive and helpful, making the overall experience seamless.

Cons

The pricing model being based on the number of users feels limiting, especially for smaller teams or businesses with fluctuating team sizes.

Switched from

[DeployBot](https://www.capterra.com/p/176316/DeployBot/)

Deploybot were shutting their operations

Review Source

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Programmeur  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Easy way to get a business up and running with a build tool"

May 23, 2019

5.0

Since that the javascript world started almost requiring a build process to keep up to date with the language while supporting older browsers, our company struggled to integrate this in our daily work. So we started looking for build tools for a company that hasn't used any before and many developers who didn't really knew what it was. Buddy being so easy to use and set-up helped a lot in getting the whole dev team to be comfortable with this new way of working. It also fixed problems we had because in our previous deploy process we were unaware when a deploy failed and unable to recognize which servers were and weren't up to date. This caused all kinds of problems and even support questions for stuff that was already fixed, costing us extra time to figure out that something and what exactly went wrong.

Pros

It is very easy to get started with, intuitive. No real need to familiarize yourself with how the tooling works. We could quickly get pipelines up and running to test with and didn't need to spend much tweaking and fixing the build process. Our first intuition on how we should set it up was spot on. We could very quickly move from the initial test to using it in production. Because of the simple look and feel of the product it was very easy to get the whole company on board, in a company that wasn't used to using build systems. Getting people familiar with the product for day to day use was very easy to do. The initial set-up of the on-premise variant was very straight forward because they use docker. We ran a couple of commands and had it up and running in no time. Figuring out back-ups took a little more time but the customer service was great and they have updated the docs since.

Cons

The only con I can come up with is the price. We need to use the on-premise/enterprise version and that one is quite expensive to start with and has a hefty mark-up when you pass one of the pricing stages. The price doubles when you go from 10 to 20 or 20 to 40 users which hurts a little when you are adding your 11th or 21th person to the team.

Review Source

SH

Suroor H.  
Senior Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Exceptionally easy to set up and go"

August 7, 2023

5.0

Buddy has been so smooth and easy to set up and use. It is my go to tool for any new project I'm starting. I've even migrated a few that were running on other platforms for years

Pros

Ease of setup and use is key to any service. Every other service that I have used pales in comparison in this aspect

Cons

Shared variable management can sometimes be tricky, especially when you have multiple pipelines.

Reason for choosing Buddy

Ease of use when handling multiple pipelines that make use of the same variables with different values.

Review Source

MO

Marcus O.  
Frontend Developer  
Online Media  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Easy to use without sacrificing features"

November 14, 2022

5.0

We are currently migrating a lot of old delivery services that were missing pipeline support, and on the projects we have moved we have saved a lot of time and money when we don't have to handle merge conflicts on files that should be built on deployment anyway.

Pros

I love that it's easy to set up our pipelines, but it's also easy to understand how the pipelines are set up so teaching my colleagues on how to use this has been just as simple.

Cons

None at this moment, there are times when you wish an action were available but the ones I was thinking about have already been implemented.

Review Source

Guilherme P.  
SRE  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Makes it ridiculously easy to build and maintain complex CI/CD pipelines"

December 12, 2019

5.0

Pros

The unique and intuitive way we can interact with it. It is a complete platform that's also very simple to use, so simple that setting up any new pipeline usually takes ten minutes tops. At our company, we use multiple Buddy actions, such as: File transferring (SFTP), performing Status Checks for CR, building and pushing Docker images, establishing containerized environment for tests and setting up K8s deployment images. And we are pretty happy with our overall experience with Buddy.

Cons

Price, maybe? IIRC, it's a little more expensive than alternatives but I think it's worth it in the end.

Alternatives considered

[CircleCI](https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/)[Codefresh](https://www.capterra.com/p/156336/Codefresh/)

Review Source

JG

Julien G.  
Backend Lead Developer  
Music  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best product for CI/CD"

June 2, 2023

5.0

Wonderful

Pros

The easy way we can set-up a pipeline to deploy products (api, smartphone apps, website)It take 10x less time than on other platforms

Cons

The price and the lack of visibility about account consumption

Alternatives considered

[GitHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/)[CircleCI](https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/)[Jenkins X](https://www.capterra.com/p/238813/Jenkins-X/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

More easy to set up

Review Source

GV

Gabriele V.  
Full stack  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Simple and intuitive"

June 29, 2023

5.0

Pros

Its simplicity in setting the whole environment

Cons

Nothing in particular, maybe the cost.

Review Source

NS

Neil S.  
CTO  
Internet  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Easy to use, Empowers teams"

May 23, 2019

5.0

As mentioned in our positives, our business use case was to simply set up deployments and build pipelines without the hassle whilst also empowering our team of developers and project managers. There are obviously ways to do this on the servers but the management of this requires a lot more work and knowledge of dev ops.

Pros

The obvious positives for us about Buddy are how simple it is to use and pick up. The interface is really nice and makes everything point and click set up. We also really like how easy it is to set up users and limit them to various projects or actions. We have really been able to empower our development team even to a junior level. Last the integrations with Slack and Github have enabled us to notify the whole team when a deployment fails or succeeds.

Cons

If Buddy is down for maintenance (this is extremely rare and also only for a few minutes usually) it can delay our deployments waiting for it to be back up. This isn't even a complaint really but more that it's the only small negative we can think of.

Review Source

MB

Mark B.  
Developer  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The tool of tools"

December 11, 2019

5.0

Pros

I love working in my terminal, but when the UX/UI of a product is as good as this, I love working in a GUI too. The UI is completely intuitive and very fun to use. From a functionality point of view, the system is incredible. Being able to quickly spin up very complex builds & deployments, and then tie in all sorts of notifications is a dream come true. YML is fine, but being able to tie in all these steps with a visual pipeline editor/builder, is a treat and I thoroughly enjoy using it.

Cons

It's expensive. It's worth every penny, but its still a lot of pennies to pay every month for a small team / freelancer. There is a free plan, but you'll quickly hit the 120 builds per month limit.

Reason for choosing Buddy

More more powerful pipeline / deployment system. Better UI

Review Source

Kris J.  
Lead Developer  
Retail  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great deployment platform for all our needs"

December 10, 2019

5.0

Pros

With Buddy I was able to consolidate my deployment tools, and save money. The platform is super intuitive and more powerful than what we were using previously.

Cons

A couple years ago my team uncovered a small issue with one of the deployment actions, but after working with Buddy's support team they resolved the problem!

Review Source

Mark P.  
Web Designer  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Excellent!"

December 10, 2019

4.0

Buddy has helped our team tremendously in making us able to collaborate on site development.

Pros

ease of use, efficiency, accessibility, and design.

Cons

learning curve, there are still some features that I am discovering through use - would be nice to have courses on quickly setting up all the applications of Buddy

Review Source

Niklas R.  
Product Manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "The simplest CI and Automation tool I ever experienced"

December 18, 2019

5.0

Buddy was the first CI/CD tool that satisfied all of our needs while being extremely simple to use. It was easy to get up and running with our monorepo and custom triggers with webhooks. Buddy provided solid support for multiple programming languages, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and HTTP Endpoints. It is a joy to build pipelines with Buddy! 🚀

Pros

It provides very intuitive workflows and actions that are customizable for all kinds of needs.

Cons

You pay for a machine the whole month even if you aren't using it. I would prefer a serverless model like with Google Cloud Build or GitHub Actions, where you only pay for the minutes the machine is running.

Review Source

AR

Aimee R.  
Web Developer  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "A great Product"

September 11, 2023

5.0

Pros

Buddy has been really easy to use and set up for a number of products.

Cons

The Documentation for some features could explain more or contain different versions. Some actions in the documentation don't match up with how it is used on the pipeline.

Review Source

VR

Verified Reviewer  
WordPress developer  
Internet  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Buddy helps me save time every day"

September 9, 2022

4.0

I work on a team that pushes code to multiple client websites every day and Buddy pipelines from GitHub to the client servers saves our team so much time.

Pros

The ability to set up a pipeline once and just know that it works is a beautiful feeling. When I have new code to push to a project, I push to GitHub and know the code is going to get where it needs to go.

Cons

I haven't found any downsides yet, but I'll let you know if I ever do :)

Review Source

MV

Marco V.  
Software developer  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Buddy just works"

December 19, 2019

5.0

I'm using it mainly to deploy Laravel projects and with Buddy that saves me a lot of time.

Pros

It's so easy to create a new project and setup the actions needed for deployment. What I also like is the possibility to clone a project and to setup variables within a project.

Cons

That's not really about the product itself, but about the pricing. I'm still on an old plan, but now even the smallest plan starts at $75/month. That's quite expensive if you have just a couple of projects.

Review Source

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