What users are saying about

CircleCI vs Octopus Deploy

CircleCI
45 Ratings
Octopus Deploy
29 Ratings
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CircleCI

45 Ratings
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Score 8.4 out of 100

Based on 45 reviews and ratings

Octopus Deploy

29 Ratings
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Score 8.7 out of 100

Based on 29 reviews and ratings

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Attribute Ratings

  • CircleCI is rated higher in 1 area: Usability
  • Octopus Deploy is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Performance

Likelihood to Recommend

8.8

CircleCI

88%
25 Ratings
9.0

Octopus Deploy

90%
15 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

CircleCI

N/A
0 Ratings
8.0

Octopus Deploy

80%
1 Rating

Usability

10.0

CircleCI

100%
1 Rating
7.0

Octopus Deploy

70%
1 Rating

Performance

7.8

CircleCI

78%
6 Ratings
8.5

Octopus Deploy

85%
8 Ratings

Support Rating

6.9

CircleCI

69%
12 Ratings

Octopus Deploy

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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Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy is a well though [the] solution to the deployment orchestration problem. It is a reliable and robust solution that is relatively simple to understand. [Its] UI is friendly and easy to use, The support and documentation [are] excellent and the product seems to fit into any organization’s process very well and with less effort than other products in this space. I actually find it a pleasure to work with [every day] and I am glad to have it as an integral part of our process.

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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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Octopus Deploy

  • Octopus integrates nicely with TeamCity, our build server.
  • Octopus uses the same deployment packages across environments and makes it easy to track their progress across those environments.
  • Octopus makes it easy to handle configuration across environments which is usually a particularly difficult task.

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Tim Hardy | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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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Octopus Deploy

  • UI is very fluffy and padded. It looks pretty but it could benefit from a more compact, information-focused design
  • Deployment process options are not always laid out in an intuitive manner. Choosing which steps to exclude, which environments or targets to deploy to, etc., is not immediately clear
  • Lack of useful reports and metrics for tracking active deployments and historical data

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Anthony Aziz | 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
—
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
Additional Pricing Details
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Octopus Deploy

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional

Starting Price

$99 per month

Octopus Deploy Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition
ServerFree 30 day trial1
ServerStarting at $600 per year2
  1. unlimited targets/users/projects
  2. per 5 deployment targets/per year
SaaS Edition
CloudFree 30 day trial1
CloudStarting at $50 per month2
  1. unlimited targets/users/projects
  2. Minimum $50 per month, $10 per target
Additional Pricing Details
Monthly prices increase based on the number of deployment targets.

Likelihood to Renew

CircleCI

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy 8.0
Based on 1 answer
Would be a 10 except for the retirement of the free Community Edition.

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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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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy 7.0
Based on 1 answer
Octopus Deploy has greatly helped us to improve our reliability and frequency of our deployments and given us the confidence to deploy much more often, with a direct benefit to customers. Cross-platform support and release to Cloud require more focus on the product side.

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Ramendra Sahu | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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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Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy 8.5
Based on 8 answers
Octopus Deploy is a software that runs very effectively, is easy to use, does not require such a high learning curve, provides the necessary tools to carry out the functions it offers, making it a very flexible software, it also allows that can be configured according to the needs of the user and provides integrations with other very advantageous tools since they are carried out in a very favorable way.

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Hanna Bedoya | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Octopus Deploy

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

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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Octopus Deploy

There aren't really any competitors in the land of ASP.NET. Deployment is too ad-hoc. Other tools exist that have massive downsides, like Web Deploy. Most aren't even supported anymore. You could argue that containers (Docker) are a competitor, but containers cannot be used for everything and solve a somewhat different problem. Octopus Deploy is even able to help with containers. To us, Octopus Deploy was really the only really polished solution.

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Sam Rueby (MCSA) | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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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Octopus Deploy

  • While not an inexpensive product, it has proven to be a good value. I don't have firm ROI numbers but our PROD deployment quality has improved, and we now measure deployment times in "person-minutes" rather than "person-hours".
  • Our defect rate due to missed configuration items has been significantly reduced.
  • Octopus has enhanced our ability to enforce SDLC separation-of-duties.

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