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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 2 - Reviews of Buddy

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CH

Christoph H.  
Shopware Developer - Web-Developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Easy to build automatisation"

August 28, 2024

5.0

i like it. i build pipeline with github to automate push to staging and live

Pros

easy automatisation of pipelines and good overview

Cons

at the moment there is nothing that i would like to do better

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SK

Serhii K.  
QA Lead  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Modern tool for CI/CD"

June 6, 2024

5.0

Good tool to use for any project but still need some time to capture the market

Pros

Amount of integrations with different products and simple to use

Cons

The price could be little bit lower for long term users

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xJ

xavier J.  
CEO  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Elixir web review"

June 11, 2024

5.0

Pros

Facilité d'integration et de mise en place des pipeline de développement

Cons

Pas grand chose, tout est bien détaillé, l'information est facile à trouver et dès que j'ai eu a contacter le support j'ai de suite été pris en charge.

Reason for choosing Buddy

I already had an experience with buddy in another job

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Naing Aung L.  
Chief Technology Officer  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Buddy Works as a Continuous Integration tool"

October 14, 2022

5.0

Buddy has been a huge help in our organization's engineering team by fail-safe builds.

Pros

Buddy has the most convenient CI/CD and deployment functionalities. It's web-UI based work flow builder really stands out and helps beginner mobile devs to easily use continuous integration.

Cons

Buddy's Pro plan doesn't really suffice for memory-hungry builds. Especially in android builds, I felt it's 3GB Ram for Pro plan isn't really close to what we need. Builds would usually fail due to memory issues, no matter how optimized the pipeline is

Alternatives considered

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

Switched from

[Bitrise](https://www.capterra.com/p/178004/Bitrise/)

Pricing in Buddy was more negotiable

Review Source

Louis W.  
Web Manager  
Architecture & Planning  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Buddy allows your team to make the most of their time. Developing instead of Deploying!"

September 22, 2023

5.0

Love it. I have used it for years. I tell everyone about it. Encourage everyone to use it.

Pros

The large number of integrations. This is critical. It allows us to use just Buddy to manage everything.

Cons

We can always use more integrations. The more things Buddy adds to their ecosystem. The more products we can consider to improve our workflows.

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PW

Peter W.  
Advanced Computing Research Student  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Comprehensive and User-Friendly: A Review of Buddy.works' Features"

January 25, 2023

4.0

Buddy.works is a comprehensive and user-friendly software that offers a wide range of features for continuous delivery and continuous development. It can automate the process of building, testing, and deploying NodeJS applications to cloud instances. The pipeline management feature in Buddy.works allows for easy creation and management of multiple pipelines, streamlining the development process. By integrating with popular version control systems like Git, Buddy.works allows for easy management of code changes and collaboration with team members. Additionally, it can be integrated with cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure to deploy the NodeJS apps on the cloud instances. Overall, Buddy.works is a great tool for automating the software development process, specifically for NodeJS apps deployment on cloud instances with CI/CD.

Pros

Buddy.works is a comprehensive and user-friendly software that offers a wide range of features for continuous delivery, pipeline management, and continuous development. One of the things I liked most about the software is its ability to automate the delivery process, making it easy to deploy updates and new features to users. The pipeline management feature is also very impactful, allowing users to easily create and manage multiple pipelines, streamlining the development process. The software is also very easy to use, with a user-friendly interface and a comprehensive set of tools for continuous development. Additionally, integration with existing business processes was a breeze, thanks to the software's robust integration capabilities with a wide range of third-party tools and services.

Cons

As a user of Buddy.works, I found that one of the cons of the software is the lack of flexibility in customizing the pipeline management feature. While it's easy to create and manage multiple pipelines, I would have liked more options for customizing and adapting the pipelines to my specific needs. Additionally, I found that the user interface can be a bit overwhelming at times, with multiple menus and options that can be difficult to navigate. I also felt that some features, such as configuration management, could be improved to provide more detailed and granular control. However, despite these cons, I found that integration with my existing business processes was relatively easy and the software provided a comprehensive set of tools for continuous development.

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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.

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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.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
CTO  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "CI/CD made easy"

December 9, 2019

5.0

People usually complain about paying for something they can make themselves. Buddy has freed up a lot of time for everyone in the organization by removing the technical skill and knowledge of Buddy configuration. The time saved is WORTH every penny!

Pros

The UX is so simple yet so powerful that anyone can create pipelines. Even our non-technical users understands the software and create pipelines to automate their needs from the code.

Cons

The cap of concurrent runs is set to 4 on self-hosted. Even though the wait time is pretty low, it's still annoying when we deploy large amount of microservices.

Alternatives considered

[GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/)[Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

If Gitlab or Jenkins had such a nice UI/UX and customer service, I'd re-evaluate. As of now, Buddy is hands down one of the best service I've used money on.

Switched from

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

I got tired of listening to people whine about their pipelines doesn't work like they wanted. To add new services I had to figure out what to do. Wasted a lot of time...

Review Source

SPS

SriKrishna Prakash S.  
Architect  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Buddy is DevOps Buddy"

March 9, 2023

5.0

This is a good tool for devops but requires few flexibility of using multiple code repo urls in a project, able to create pipeline automatedly selected branches. Plugins for Liquibase, soanrqube servers etc

Pros

The feature of defining actions and customize the actions based on the requirement. Switching on and off of the actions of a pipeline. When error occurred, correcting the issues and continue to run the pipeline.Parameter action and custom actions help to achieve what we want. Integration with third party tools like ACR, Synk- etc

Cons

Selecting only one code repo for a project.

Switched from

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

Ease of use and creating pipeline and configurable customized actions for pipeline

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

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Programador Full-stack PHP  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Automate the deployment of your application"

May 9, 2019

5.0

I use buddy for the simplest tasks like uploading GIT files to FTP without needing to configure anything on the destination server. It is very useful when you do not have SSH access or you just do not want to program complicated scripts.

Pros

Buddy offers an advanced automation experience with a basic knowledge requirement. Thanks to its multiple integrations you can get great automations with just a few clicks. You can create multiple pipelines to manage all the necessary processes to run your application. Upload files to multiple servers, compile applications, send notifications, etc. Undoubtedly Buddy is a very interesting tool to save time without having to develop large and complicated manual integrations.

Cons

If your pipeline does things that need a long execution time, Buddy can give a timeout and leave the task halfway.

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Response from Buddy

May 10, 2019

Hello! We are glad to hear that you like our product. If you are facing issues with timeouts it would be best to contact our support. Knowing the full context we might provide you with a solution.

ON

Oliver N.  
Lead Technical  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Rock solid"

December 9, 2019

5.0

Buddy couldn't have come sooner for us. It has solved all of our problems and now allows us to deploy in a variety of complexities in no time at all.

Pros

\- Very regular software updates, adding great new features all of the time - Decent UI that allows us to do everything we need. YAML configuration available to those who don't want it - Sensibly priced, self hosted option for those who want to keep it in-house - Good integration with all of the tools we use and more

Cons

\- We have to manually renew our LetsEncrypt SSL through the CLI tool on the server - Hardware requirements can be a little high if using Docker, but that's more of a Docker problem than Buddy

Alternatives considered

[Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/)[Ansible Tower](https://www.capterra.com/p/149875/Ansible-Tower/)[Bitbucket](https://www.capterra.com/p/233341/Bitbucket/)

Switched from

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

We were having so many issues with Deploybot. They slowed down on new features since being sold to another company, now it seems they've been left to die. We also had so many issues with stuck pipelines and web UI bugs. Sometimes the only solution would be to delete everything and start again (if it deleted properly of course, which was another bug)

Review Source

Lachlan D.  
Lead Developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Simple and quick"

December 5, 2023

4.0

Pros

Buddy works really well for our organization. The no-config pipelines make setting things up super easy and save us a ton of time. The platform has all the features we need for deployment and testing—it's got everything covered. Plus, it integrates seamlessly with AWS, which is exactly what we were looking for. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs a quick and easy deployment suite.

Cons

Sometimes our development processes fail unexpectedly, likely a system layer problem beyond our access. Luckily, these issues tend to fix themselves after a while. The challenge is that when we need help from customer service, they're in a different time zone, making the problem-solving process slower.

Review Source

DL

Daniel L.  
daniel@artisanscollaborative.com  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Buddy Works"

December 16, 2019

4.0

It just works. With very little setup and maintenance the solution just works. Features are intuitive, controls are plenty, and the UI is beautiful. I started with the free self-hosted version, and have continued with both the cloud and self-hosted on various teams. The various price points are great for getting the entire Git workflow organized for your team.

Pros

\- The filesystem access to debug builds and their artifacts - The Dockerized containers for each action that share the filesystem - The many ready to go actions that can be added to any pipeline - The ability to have multiple pipelines running on a given project - The ability to tag and organize repositories into folders

Cons

\- Requires a lot of memory for the self-hosted variant - Inability to use slashes to group repositories under namespaces

Alternatives considered

[Codeship](https://www.capterra.com/p/124772/Codeship/)[Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/)[GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

Better UI, simpler setup, self-hosted version, price.

Switched from

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

Price and the self-hosted version.

Review Source

JD

Josh D.  
Lead Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Indispensable tool"

December 9, 2019

5.0

Pros

We used DeployBot for the longest time but we just had so many inexplicable issues and frustratingly timed downtime along with slow response times. Buddy has wiped the floor on all of these points. It takes a much more user focussed approach to deployment, giving you all the bits and pieces needed to construct a deployment/build system exactly how you need it. The way DB dictated a build system to us previously worked OK for us, but with Buddy you can achieve the same approach and so much more (or less if needed) just by virtue of it giving you complete control over every step. If you wanted to you could use it for other kinds of automation based on repos, for example we have a repo used for running checks on a live Magento database where data issues are not entirely uncommon — this pipeline runs checks there and notifies us if it finds something wrong. Love Buddy, and we'll never be looking back.

Cons

There are some minor edge case features I'd like to see, it doesn't tick every single possible box, but this is really so minor as whatever I'm referring to can be achieved somehow with thought.

Switched from

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

Had many unexplained and anomalous issues with DeployBot, I think mainly due to it's closed down approach to build pipelines.

Review Source

VR

Verified Reviewer  
CTO  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Buddy - The easiest CI/CD tool by far"

June 12, 2019

5.0

Our development flow is fully automated with buddy. That helps the team a lot, and saved me tons of time, since it was done by me manually. We also use it to deploy production applications, with easy. Buddy is also used to deploy to firebase hosting. We have some use cases where we just need to serve a json with the project version, and this json is created used buddy pipelines, extracting the project version from the repository.

Pros

Buddy is really easy to set up and start using as a CI, CD or DevOps tool. I've tried other tools in the past to help on CD processes but I always had a hard time to get somewhere. With buddy I created the first pipeline in minutes and it helped me a lot, since I was the only one who was deploying applications in the company.

Cons

I love buddy :) I don't remember any cons.

Review Source

Bui Van T.  
Developer  
Information Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Easy to use, great performance"

February 1, 2024

5.0

Pros

It is one of the most powerful tools to help push code quickly, and can manage error checking when deploying an application

Cons

Sometimes, just sometimes it works a bit slow

Reason for choosing Buddy

I looked at many apps but found Buddy to be the most suitable

Review Source

PP

Paweł P.  
CTO  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Run CI/CD without headache"

May 27, 2019

5.0

Buddy is the easiest CI/CD solution I could find. Frankly it wasn't me finding it but a friend front-end developer showed me how to use it. This means you really don't need to be an old school open source ninja or DevOps hipster to run a CI/CD for your project. Just put together the build pipeline and get running in minutes.

Pros

It's so easy to get the on premise install running. It really takes minutes to get the software configured. Building the deployment flow, aka pipeline is very intuitive. The UI will even give you hints about next steps in the pipeline. You want to get things more complex? No worries - tons of integrations are at your service. Starting from simple FPT/SFTP deployments, through deployment time script compilation ending with advanced pipelines that include testing, sandboxing, joining other pipelines and parallel execution. All that wrapped in stylish and intuitive UI that lets you watch the process live. When something goes wrong it's easy to find the exact step and the relevant log messages. Everything enclosed in one view. Awesome! From the business perspective the TCO for the Buddy is much better (lower) when compared to top CI/CD tools and even open source solutions.

Cons

For the standalone edition some may find Buddy a being a black box. It could be difficult to get you hands dirty on internals of the system. If you're used to get control on every detail you may find the Buddy UI limiting you.

Review Source

JP

Jeroen P.  
Software Developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Deployment is just a click away"

August 3, 2022

5.0

Pros

Buddy is fast, it's easy, it's advanced. Buddy enables us to deploy without lots of hassle. We work with git-flow and as soon as we push a release, Buddy is ready to deploy it. We really love the advanced deployment features

Cons

Buddy might be a bit overwhelming at first, after you learn the terms, where to setup a project, it will all be a walk in the park

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

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Head of Software Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Suluh Review"

January 16, 2023

5.0

Because Bitbucket has a very annoying pipeline limit, I'm trying to find an external CI/CD that can integrate with Bitbucket. Long story short, I found Buddy, to be honest, I was very constrained with payments, I could afford it but I didn't have payments abroad (only Indonesia), and it turned out that Buddy was free! I was very happy, I thought "this is free, at least it's not good and incomplete", it turns out that my thoughts were wrong, this is very cool, very good, very complete, this even makes it easier for me, always success for Buddy, hopefully in the future it will always be free with enough features as it is today. Or hopefully in the future it can support payments from Indonesia, hehe. Thanks!

Pros

Easy to create pipelines, it's an experiment I like, different environment, no tedious typing, all using UI!

Cons

So far I haven't felt any drawbacks using Buddy, but I know you guys need this, sorry :)

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

AL

Angel L.  
CEO  
Program Development  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Silver bullet for automating CI/CD"

January 31, 2020

5.0

Love the tool definitely, Github Actions is getting there, but not even close yet. 100% recommended.

Pros

The integrations is by far the best feature of Buddy. it connects you with literally everything, Amazon, Google, Github, Slack, etc, etc, etc On top of that it allows you to run literally anything in their cloud.

Cons

Not so much about the pricing structure, I'm paying $200 and it seems that I could get more

Alternatives considered

[CircleCI](https://www.capterra.com/p/150380/CircleCI/)[Travis CI](https://www.capterra.com/p/179183/Travis-CI/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

Integrate with Github super easily. The UI with the integrations rocks

Switched from

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

Buddy is easier to use and beautiful UI

Review Source

VR

Verified Reviewer  
CTO  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Buddy is great"

May 22, 2019

5.0

Our favorite CI / CD service became the Buddy platform with a modern interface, conceptual innovations, and live assistance. Be it Azure, AWS, K8s, Python, Java, PHP, FTP, SSH, Slack, SMS... the platform didn't let us down

Pros

The most we like: simple to use, friendly and modern UI. We might not be a big company using a ton of architecture, but we've found solutions in Buddy to all our deployment related tasks.

Cons

They are having hard time keeping all the documentation up to date.

Review Source

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