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CircleCI vs GoCD

CircleCI
45 Ratings
GoCD
5 Ratings

CircleCI

45 Ratings
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Score 8.4 out of 100

Based on 45 reviews and ratings

GoCD

5 Ratings
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Score 6.9 out of 100

Based on 5 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • GoCD is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

8.8

CircleCI

88%
25 Ratings
9.0

GoCD

90%
2 Ratings

Usability

10.0

CircleCI

100%
1 Rating

GoCD

N/A
0 Ratings

Performance

7.8

CircleCI

78%
6 Ratings

GoCD

N/A
0 Ratings

Support Rating

6.9

CircleCI

69%
12 Ratings

GoCD

N/A
0 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

CircleCI

CircleCI is perfect for a CI/CD pipeline for an app using a standard build process. It'll take more work for a complex build process, but should still be up to the task unless you need a lot of integrations with other tools. If you have a big team and can spare someone to focus full time on just the CI/CD tools, maybe something like Jenkins is better, but if you're just looking to get your app built, tested, and delivered without a huge amount of effort, CircleCI is probably your preferred tool.

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John Grosjean | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoCD

Previously, our team used Jenkins. However, since it's a shared deployment resource we don't have admin access. We tried GoCD as it's open source and we really like. We set up our deployment pipeline to run whenever codes are merged to master, run the unit test and revert back if it doesn't pass. Once it's deployed to the staging environment, we can simply do 1-click to deploy the appropriate version to production. We use this to deploy to an on-prem server and also AWS. Some deployment pipelines use custom Powershell script for.Net application, some others use Bash script to execute the docker push and cloud formation template to build elastic beanstalk.

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Dicky Leonardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros

CircleCI

  • Multiple builds can be run at the same time in parallel.
  • The CircleCI web interface (UI/UX) is very easy to understand and use.
  • Easy Configuration to learn and use. Just a single configuration YAML file.
  • Many integrations. We use the GItHub, Slack, and DataDog integrations.

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Gabriel Samaroo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoCD

  • Pipeline-as-Code works really well. All our pipelines are defined in yml files, which are checked into SCM.
  • The ability to link multiple pipelines together is really cool. Later pipelines can declare a dependency to pick up the build artifacts of earlier ones.
  • Agents definition is really great. We can define multiple different kinds of environments to best suit our diverse build systems.

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Tung Vu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tung Vu
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Cons

CircleCI

  • The "phases" their config file uses to separate out options seem very arbitrary and are not very helpful for organizing your config file
  • No way that I know of to configure which version of MongoDB you use. You have to write your own shell script to download and start MongoDB if you want a specific version.
  • Hard to access build artifacts in the UI

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Valeri Karpov | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoCD

  • UI can be improved
  • Location for settings can be re-arranged
  • API for setting up pipeline

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Dicky Leonardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

CircleCI

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$0 per month

CircleCI Editions & Modules

Edition
Free$01
Performance$301
ScaleCustom Pricing
Server$353
  1. per month
  2. none
  3. per month
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GoCD

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

—

GoCD Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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Usability

CircleCI

CircleCI 10.0
Based on 1 answer
CircleCI interface is awesome in that it is relatively modern and makes it clear exactly which parts of the engineering lifecycle you are in

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GoCD

No score
No answers yet
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Performance

CircleCI

CircleCI 7.8
Based on 6 answers
It's pretty snappy, even with using workflows with multiple steps and different docker images. I've seen builds take a long time if it's really involved, but from what I can tell, it's still at least on par if not faster than other build tools.

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John Grosjean | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoCD

No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating

CircleCI

CircleCI 6.9
Based on 12 answers
Unless you have a reasonably large account, you're going to be mainly stuck reading their documentation. Which has improved somewhat over the years but is still extremely limited compared to a platform like Digital Ocean who invested in the documentation and a community to ensure it's kept up to date. If you can't find your answer there, you can be stuck.

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GoCD

No score
No answers yet
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Alternatives Considered

CircleCI

Circle was the first CI with simple setup, great documentation, and tight integration with GitHub. Using Jenkins was too much maintenance and overhead, TeamCity was limited in how we could customize it and run concurrent builds, TravisCI was not available for private repos when we switched.

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Paul Hepworth | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoCD

GoCD is easier to setup, but harder to customize at runtime. There's no way to trigger a pipeline with custom parameters.
Jenkins is more flexible at runtime. You can define multiple user-provided parameters so when user needs to trigger a build, there's a form for him/her to input the parameters.

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Tung Vu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tung Vu
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Return on Investment

CircleCI

  • It has eased the burden of standardizing our testing and deployment, making onboarding new developers much faster, and having to fix deployment mistakes much less often.
  • It allows us to focus our process around the GitHub workflow, ignoring the details of whatever environment the thing we're working on is actually hosted in. This saves us time.

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Ben McClure | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoCD

  • ROI has been good since it's open source
  • Settings.xml need to be backed up periodically. It contains all the settings for your pipelines! We accidentally deleted before and we have to restore and re-create several missing pipelines
  • More straight forward use of API and allows filtering e.g., pull all pipelines triggered after this date

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Dicky Leonardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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