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Buddy

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 3 - Reviews of Buddy

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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.

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SS

Sam S.  
CTO  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "The underdog of CI/CD"

October 17, 2022

5.0

Fantastic product, support is top-notch. Definately wouldn't consider going anywhere else.

Pros

Buddy introduces a very easy to use GUI, rather than composing the YAML file manually. I really like how you can see the progress through the steps, when running a pipeline. This also is worth its weight in gold when it comes to debugging a step or process.

Cons

I do feel like the paid plans could be more flexible, maybe add the ability to mix add-ons to plans. For example, adding more projects to a plan or more minutes to allowance. I am pretty frugal and don't like to pay for something if I don't have to. However this is definately worth the investment.

Switched from

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

Small learning curve and the easy to use GUI.

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MB

Mani B.  
Web developer  
Design  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Easy to use, and secure"

April 12, 2023

5.0

Overall I would recommend Buddy to any developers.

Pros

Using Buddy for web deployment process made my working life so much better. Once set up, it's very easy to use and given me so much piece of mind.

Cons

Most of the time, it works great, but when there's an error happening, it could get tricky to resolve the issue.

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YH

Yilmar H.  
Technical account manager  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Buddy is the best deployment tool"

November 3, 2022

5.0

I really love this product it makes my life easy.

Pros

I like a lot the easy way to configure projects and create pipelines to deploy my application in different environments.

Cons

I think they should create most documentation.

Alternatives considered

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

Reason for choosing Buddy

Usability and because it's a cloud based application and I don't need to worried about infrastructure management.

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RG

Raphaël G.  
Web Developer  
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Easy to Use & Beautiful UI"

December 12, 2019

4.0

Buddy is the easiest CI/CD solution I could find.

Pros

The interface is very intuitive and easy to use. With a few clicks you can create a deployment pipeline easily. There is a lot of built-in actions that connect with many services. Even if when we can't find what we need, its integration with Docker Hub is really helpful so we can setup our own custom Docker image. As it works on docker, it is easy to install and manage.

Cons

User administration is sometimes confusing. When there are new users, they may not be able to access some old projects even if they have been added to the group that have access to this project and must be authorized individually.

Alternatives considered

[Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/)[Codefresh](https://www.capterra.com/p/156336/Codefresh/)

Reason for choosing Buddy

Easy to install and configure, it allows us to deploy several projects with different technologies. Its intuitive interface makes administration easy and allows anyone to manage the deployment of an app. Their support is attentive and responds quickly to our problems. I recommend this product to anyone who wants an effective CD/CI solution without headaches.

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JP

Joe P.  
DevOps Manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Can't make it any easier"

July 28, 2022

5.0

Pros

CD/CI is hard no matter how you look at it. The design of the Buddy UI makes it so simple to create and automate the entire CI workflow. I can control every aspect of the pipeline, monitor the progress of each build and easily reach detailed logging whenever I need it.

Cons

None that I can really think of right now

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Niels K.  
Senior Developer  
Program Development  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great piece of software!"

December 9, 2019

5.0

Pros

The best thing about buddy is probably their customer support. The software itself doesn't require to much explanation, but when you do have a suggestion or piece of feedback it is handled with care.

Cons

The activity view per project could have a bit more filtering options and the sandbox option in projects is a bit to expensive for our use.

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VR

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

### "Excellent Service"

December 9, 2019

5.0

Pros

Deployments are a breeze with Buddy. Every single option we could possibly want is available to us. I can't imagine not using this tool for deployments.

Cons

There aren't really any cons I've found with this tool. Some custom gulp compilations run somewhat slowly, but overall that's not a big deal.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Senior Director Product Development  
Insurance  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Excellent product for all size teams and companies"

October 31, 2022

5.0

Pros

The UI is incredibly easy to use, and functions flawlessly.

Cons

A few additional integrations with other applications would be nice/ideal.

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Zoltan L.  
Software developer  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Never thought continuous deployment could save me so much time"

January 1, 2023

5.0

Pros

I read about Buddy somewhere and since it's free for small businesses, I thought I'd give it a try. So I set up automatic build and deployment (never did that before), the interface was super easy to use and after a day I was ready to use Buddy in production. After that I never had to deploy anything manually, I just push the changes to GitHub and I know that in a few minutes it will be live on production. Awesome!

Cons

Even if there was something to dislike, the support staff would help you solve it.

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SP

Sunil P.  
Full-stack web developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "What a time Saver"

February 12, 2023

5.0

I personally enjoy the deployment process because of Buddy. Not having to manually upload files to the server is a big time saver and an ability to rollback if things to south is such a great live saver feature.

Pros

Its ease of use, comprehensive set of tools and features for automation, and strong focus on security. Its intuitive user interface and flexible pipeline configurations make it simple for teams to set up and manage their software development processes.

Cons

The pricing could be more affordable. Also I felt that front-end deployment takes longer - wish this could be improved.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Fullstack dev / team lead  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Does everything you need "

January 31, 2023

5.0

Pros

A said in title "Does everything you need" and once you configure it you can "forget" about it :) as simply said "buddy works" :D

Cons

Everything was super easy, there is tone of documentation so im writing this part just because is required :D

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AL

Alex L.  
Senior Software Developer  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Takes a load of your mind"

December 10, 2019

5.0

Overall, very good. We've had a few little niggles here and there but support has solved them within a day or two at most. I love the fact that I can create and deploy a new microservice in under 30 minutes!

Pros

Once you've configured your standard deployment patterns in yml format, you can simply check any new projects into your SCM and then tell Buddy to create a new project from it. From there, Buddy will pick up your predefined pipelines and GO! AWS integration is a simple single set up for the entire org acc, no need to each user to have their own access keys stored in Buddy. As we don't have a DevOps team at our company, deployments are taken care of by the teams. Buddy makes is easy to create, edit and manage these deployments.

Cons

The concurrency based pricing. I would prefer if pricing could be calculated based on actual resource usage as I assume all the build servers are most likely Fargate or scaled EC2 clusters. In any case, being restricted on concurrency per subscription can be a little annoying, especially on deployment days where I may need to release 10 services simultaneously, but I can only do 2 at a time... each taking around 5 minutes for full blue/green deployment. This means it can take up to an hour to deploy 10 services, where as ideally I want them all deployed within 10 minutes.

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Corey C.  
Agency Owner & Director  
Design  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "The simplest and probably the most complete solution for deploying your projects to servers."

December 11, 2019

5.0

Great, Buddy has made it easy to build a complex deployment process that is version controlled and easy to manage in forked projects.

Pros

A huge library of integrations, predefined build processes and actions yml. This platform is allowing us to slowly automate our entire development pipeline, testing through to deployment.

Cons

The price point makes it hard to take the leap onto the platform, while it is without a doubt worth it, it was a barrier that put us off for some time. Also, the limit on concurrent deployments (which is tied to your pricing tier) means sometimes your project deployments can stack up. We manage a forked repository system where our client projects inherit updates from a central repository, this can mean a significant number of projects are all queued for deployment at one time and then nothing for days.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Sr. Web Developer  
Entertainment  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "We Love Sandboxes!"

May 22, 2019

4.0

Overall, we love Buddy. It has been the best and easiest CI tool to use and provides it's weight in gold with Sandboxes.

Pros

We love the ease of use. We have tried many other CI systems and found Buddy to be the easiest and best for our front-end flow. We absolutely LOVE sandboxes, we find the most value in them. We constantly have the maximum number running for all projects to allow business and QA teams to view.

Cons

There are some gotchas and things that could be improved. Making it easier to duplicate workflows across projects, for example. Sandboxes are still in beta and could use some of the same improvements. Making it easier to define a default setup for sandboxes, and the ability to allocate lower memory to allow running more smaller sandboxes at once.

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SP

Steve P.  
Owner  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Software that does what you expect it to"

May 22, 2023

5.0

Pros

As the account owner, with no direct hands on development, I appreciated the costs were well within reason.

Cons

There are no features missing that I can see but I'm not the developer.

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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.

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ŁC

Łukasz C.  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Just made my life easier"

February 28, 2019

5.0

I'm a Software Engineer and I'm not really into being DevOps. Yet, I had to create some deployment pipelines, just due to project requirements. Buddy allowed me to create a really decent deployment pipeline, with monitoring and notifications on slack and email in minutes. I didn't have to learn any new stuff to make it work, it's really customer driven and new features pop up every week.

Pros

Being customer-driven Tons of integration. From servers like DigitalOcean, through messeging (Slack, mail, Telegram etc.) Easy to setup Decent documentation

Cons

It is much easier to get out 120 builds a month, then you would expect. And then you don't have much choice other, then paying for this tool, because you already love it. Also, I would prefer to have reference to previously created configurations, because it is pretty easy to mess with it. As I'm not able to restore it from git, it may be painful to do it from the scratch.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Fullstack Developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Buddy for WP CI/CD integration"

October 16, 2023

5.0

Tasks were run on auto-pilot and we release of our software product in shorter time than ever before.

Pros

We use Buddy to test and deploy Wordpress applications with minimum effort. We've created a delivery pipelines with few actions and hook up our favorite 3rd-party services for our projects in less than 10 minutes.

Cons

None for now, we will see if something will pop up in near future but I doubt.

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Jaimyn M.  
Head of Software Engineering  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Excellent Product"

June 24, 2019

5.0

Buddy helps to fully automate our CI pipelines which allows us to spend more time developing the software and less worried about trying to manage deployments and updates.

Pros

Buddy makes setting up and integrating a fully automated CI pipeline super easy and saved me heaps of time. It's been very reliable, fast, and effortless to use.

Cons

It's a little expensive for what your get in my opinion, but it's almost certainly worth it due to the ease of use and potential time savings.

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Omair V.  
CTO  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Slick and Reliable"

May 23, 2019

5.0

Support staff are friendly and very quick to respond.

Pros

We've been using this service as our primary CI tool for roughly 1 year. It quickly replaced our previous provider due to the level of flexibility for each individual pipeline. Above all, their user-experience is exceptional. Lots of flexibility and it Just Works.

Cons

We've previously had trouble with the processes running out of memory, but upgrading to the next plan quickly resolved the issue.

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VR

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

### "It's Amazing !"

December 13, 2019

5.0

Pros

Really nice UI Easy to use Intuitive CI/CD with a lot tools

Cons

Integration with bitbucket repositories could be better

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Ben P.  
Web Developer  
Information Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Really like it. "

May 9, 2019

5.0

Pros

The free version is perfect to start a development & project environment and paid plans are reasonable.

Cons

Better GitHub connections to show which person pushed the last code to trigger the pipeline.

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Response from Buddy

May 10, 2019

Hello Ben! I'm happy to hear that you like our product. When it comes to the issue you have mentioned, we have made improvements to the GitHub connections, so you should now properly see who triggered the pipeline. If you still have issues with that, feel free to contact our support, we will do our best to find a proper solution.

JJ

Jamie J.  
Head of dev  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best in its category"

December 9, 2019

5.0

All of the problems I have encountered was probably (more then likely) down to our own team or missing NPM packages, however the support team would always assist and help us find the root cause of the problem.

Pros

The vast amount of options available to the user and the ever growing list that comes with it.

Cons

Pricing is little bit steep as we're a small agency but the heavy lifting it takes off us is invaluable

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Ben D.  
Server side Lead  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Buddy makes our lives easy"

December 11, 2019

5.0

Pros

\- So many action available, and even when not out of the box, there is a high chance you can script it. - So easy to set up a pipeline, especially when DevOps is not your specialty, all the heavy lifting is done for you - Was easy to install and update - Support is fast, fantastic, and takes features request to the next level!

Cons

\- A bit pricey but totally worth it. - Some integrations are linked to user accounts

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