# Semaphore Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Semaphore Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Semaphore

## What is Semaphore?

The fastest CI/CD solution there is. Easily automate the process of software testing in the cloud and deploy more often in a unified workflow. Automate any continuous delivery pipeline. Get complete control with customizable stages, parallel execution, control flow switches, secrets and dependency management. Autoscale and pay only what you use.

## What is Semaphore used for?

[Continuous Integration](https://www.capterra.com/continuous-integration-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 14 user reviews

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### Semaphore

5.0 (14)

VS.

[4.4 (15,308)](https://www.capterra.com/p/19319/JIRA/reviews/)

Starting Price

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Starting Price

$7.91

Per User, Per Month

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.9 (14)

Ease Of Use

4.1 (6,133)

Value For Money

4.9 (12)

Value For Money

4.3 (4,371)

Customer Service

4.9 (13)

Customer Service

4.2 (4,031)

## Semaphore alternatives

[4.5 (51)](https://www.capterra.com/p/136011/Teamcity/reviews/)

Starting price

$45.00

Per User, Per Month

Highest Rated

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

[4.8 (6,152)](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/reviews/)

Starting price

$4.00

Per User, Per Month

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/)

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

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

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

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

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

[4.6 (1,215)](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/reviews/)

Starting price

$29.00

Per User, Per Month

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

[View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/171934/Semaphore/alternatives/)

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Access Controls/Permissions

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

API

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Configuration Management

Identify component attributes like servers, hardware, software, and manage relationships across all services

Continuous Delivery

Process of building and deploying software from the build to the production environment

Continuous Deployment

A process to automatically release code changes from repository to production environment

Debugging

Detect and remove errors

Semaphore 6 features

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Identify component attributes like servers, hardware, software, and manage relationships across all services

Process of building and deploying software from the build to the production environment

A process to automatically release code changes from repository to production environment

Detect and remove errors

Features

4.9 (14)

4.9

Based on 14 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.9 (12)

Free Trial

Free Version

[View pricing plan details](https://www.capterra.com/p/171934/Semaphore/pricing/)

Free

$0.00

It includes:

-   $10 Free Credits = 1300 Minutes
-   1 Job at a Time
-   Android
-   Build on Linux
-   Community Support
-   Docker
-   Macos

Startup

$0.00

It includes:

-   Artifact Store
-   First-Class CD Environments
-   Graphical Workflow Builder
-   Monorepo Workflows
-   No Per-Seat Cost
-   SSH Access to Running Jobs
-   Standard Customer Support

Value for money

4.9 (12)

4.9

Based on 12 reviews

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.9 (13)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.9 (13)

4.9

Based on 13 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

5.0

Based on 14 reviews

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5(14)

4(0)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

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AU

Anonymous User

Software Engineer

Medical Practice

### "Great software for maintaining websites"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

August 25, 2019

Overall, it was a very easy-to-use system that did its job well.

Pros

It has almost no clutter even though it's a pretty complicated system. Settings are easy to change, and the whole software is very informative.

Cons

Since the software is so simple, at times, as a user who didn't set up the whole system, I had to learn certain things about the software from google. There were no walk-throughs of the site in the beginning.

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Response from Vendor

August 27, 2019

Thank you for the review!

WF

Wender F.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

### "Simple and functional solution"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 24, 2019

Semaphore solves our complete CI/CD problems from development to staging.

Pros

The simplicity of configuration and the flexibility to customize pipeline runners, It uses to take us just a few minutes to have a pipeline running on Semaphore for a new project.

Cons

We have two different versions of Semaphore for different teams 1 and 2.0, the interface of V2 does not seem to be straightforward like the previous one.

Alternatives considered

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

Reasons for choosing Semaphore

The simplicity of configuration and straightforward interface

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Response from Vendor

July 1, 2019

Thank you for the feedback! We're constantly working on making Semaphore 2.0 even more intuitive - stay tuned.

AU

Anonymous User

Principal Architect

Computer Software

### "Robust CI platform"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 12, 2019

Pros

\* Ease of use \* Simple configuration \* Rich REST API that we use for analyzing build logs (performance, inconsistencies, etc.) \* Boosters

Cons

\* Boosters - although they've really increased our throughput and have reduced build inconsistencies the Box pricing gets expensive, quickly.

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Response from Vendor

June 14, 2019

Thank you!

AU

Anonymous User

Developer

Internet

### "A great tool for CI / CD"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

May 29, 2019

I run tests for my OSS projects, mainly https://github.com/okiba-gang/okiba, to ensure consistency through PRs. I hooked it up with a few other tools in such a way that the results of the test run get propagated through my toolchain. That's how we can achieve (and maintain) 100% test coverage and A level maintainability.

Pros

With semaphore you aren't required to have a config file in your project repository, all the settings are online. Its free tier for OSS projects lets you build, test and deploy automatically, with just a little configuration effort at no cost. The UX is pretty good and it's easy to integrate with third-party tools, such as CodeClimate

Cons

The settings panel could use a UI upgrade, as it isn't always straightforward to navigate it.

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Response from Vendor

June 4, 2019

Thank you for the review!

TS

Terry S.

Managing Partner

Internet

### "Brilliant Safety Net and Deployment Tool"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

May 14, 2019

We use Semaphore to check our work before it auto-deploys our latest builds to clients' systems. Tests that would otherwise tie up developers' time running on their machines now run quickly online in Semaphore and we are notified of any issues automatically so we can action them before code goes anywhere near a live server

Pros

Easy to setup and use. Once set up, it's reliable and quick, and has saved our bacon a few times!

Cons

Semaphore Classic sometimes took a while to get results, as jobs would be queued according to the resources available. Semaphore 2 (latest version at time of writing) removes that obstacle

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Response from Vendor

May 15, 2019

Thank you for the review!

RM

Rauan M.

CTO

Financial Services

### "Best tool for your CI/CD needs"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

February 10, 2019

I'd be just as happy with Semaphore Classic if it provided a way to keep the workflow in config files. But seeing how well the workflow is streamlined in Semaphore 2.0, I couldn't be more happier. Really, I've enjoyed the schematic display of the pipelines and especially appreciated the ease with which I could do introspections by jumping into jobs over SSH, and with good cli tooling no less. Also, per-second pricing came as huge surprise. It's a big deal for me as I always end up paying for something I enjoy but don't use as much to justify the spending. (it's important for bootstrapping companies)

Pros

pipelines visualization, easy debug, per-second pricing, great tooling

Cons

couldn't find any, not considering it as cons, but as a suggestion - would be nice to have a one-click way to configure notifications in project settings, not from cli.

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Response from Vendor

February 13, 2019

Thank you for the review and the feedback. Happy building!

AU

Anonymous User

Developer

Computer Software

### "Semaphore 2.0 - What a blast of speed"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

February 1, 2019

We've gone from full, congested CI pipelines, with our machines positively clogged with teams waiting for slow or large test suites to finish consuming all the available slots on deploy day... Then having machines sit idle for hours on end during the rest of the week. This particular scheduling nightmare has since disappeared, and even test suites which can be optimised no further have benefited from a massive boost in speed.

Pros

The speed. Good heavens, the speed. We have a number of projects, some of which involve some rather extensive database manipulations involving using schema. Unfortunately, this precludes parallelising our test suite, which has led to a steadily growing issue with slow specs. Whilst we optimised the specs as much as we can, reaching the point where a test run takes in excess of an hour and a half is still a very dour prospect. Enter Semaphore - we tried it out as an experiment, and have quickly moved some of our bulkiest projects over. The hardware is a massive improvement, test run times have been halved, and in some cases do even better than that. Better still, their support staff and engineering team are... Frankly, stunning. Support queries, even involving challenging and unusual setups are rapidly responded to, and often get passed to engineers and similar who are able to help you - unlike certain other CI providers who leave you hanging out with Bill from customer service, a nice enough bloke, but lacking the technical competence to actually solve issues. Whilst there are still some features that they are missing (auto-cancellation of specs, for example), they're rapidly building them out at an impressive pace - I have no doubts that they'll have every reasonably conceivable feature and then some in the near future. Finally, bare-metal hardware and the bare-bones linux vms with their helpful array of docker images for services are fast, easy and simple to use.

Cons

Semaphore 2.0 is still fairly new, so some of the Semaphore 1 features have yet to make the jump. In addition, there are some nice to have features they didn't have when we signed up - but they took the feedback to heart and kept us up to date on their progress building them o

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Response from Vendor

February 5, 2019

Thank you very much for the review. We really appreciate it!

MR

Mark R.

CTO

Fund-Raising

### "Semaphore is good for those that want bang for the buck"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

November 26, 2018

We moved onto Semaphore over a year ago and have been happy with the service. Customer service has been responsive and we have seen an effort to improve the service as a whole.

Pros

Semaphore is easy to set up and flexible. Setting up CI/CD pipeline is simple to set up and works well.

Cons

No incremental pricing options. On the yearly subscription plan it would be nice to have the option to pay for more servers for one month without having to bump up to the next subscription level.

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Sebastian S.

Founding Team Member

Computer Software

### "Incredible Speed, Simple UI, Best-in-class Customer Support"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

October 31, 2018

If you are picking a CI tool, pick Semaphore. If you are considering moving from an existing CI tool, or even if you aren't, strongly consider Semaphore. Our experience has been nothing but positive, and the support alone sets it apart from the pack.

Pros

\- Builds are FAST. The bare-bones Linux container used has plenty of power and our builds are completing 2-3x or more faster than TravisCI, JenkinsCI, and equivalents. - Building in 'Secrets' (config files, SSH keys, environment variables etc) is straightforward and really powerful - UI is simple and intuitive - Customer Support has got to the best I have encountered with a cloud provider of any kind. Seriously, we have seen 2 hour response times on a basic support plan, including custom gists being written for us for specific use cases turned around in that time. I am so impressed at the speed and quality of support and I cannot imagine competitors are even close in this regard.

Cons

\- Docker image caching on a dedicated disk would speed up our Docker builds substantially, but other than that I have no complaints or suggestions.

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AU

Anonymous User

CTO

Media Production

### "Great CI/CD tool"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

October 25, 2018

Semaphore are a great company to work with. Always responsive and helpful.

Pros

\- Simple and very quick to set up. We had our first deployments working to stage and production environments within a couple of hours. - Easy to use. We have over 70 projects in Semaphore which are deployed to our staging and production environments. - Very flexible configurations. We use it to deploy to AWS Lambdas, AWS Ops Works, and Serverless SPAs to S3. - Helpful support team. They are knowledgable about the product, and offered extra capacity free of charge when we were setting up all our projects.

Cons

\- Limited implementation of deployment pipelines. - The Project UI can sometimes be confusing to see what has been deployed to each environment.

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