CircleCI vs Octopus Deploy | TrustRadius

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Score 7.6 out of 10

Based on 40 reviews and ratings

Score 9 out of 10

Based on 21 reviews and ratings

Pros

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

Senior Software Engineer

RocketripComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Integrates well with various platforms
Allows customization of deployment process, manual deploys, and redeploys
Allows flexible deployment process definition and scripting

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Senior Software Engineer

Full Circle TMSComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Cons

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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Platform Tech Lead

Booster FuelsTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 11-50 employees

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I would like to see Octopus handle branches as a first class citizen better. It certainly has branch support, but it is not as smooth or as intuitive as I would like it to be. I would like it to be easier to pick the branch of a repo I want to deploy and where I want to deploy it.
I think Octopus could do more to help the management of Azure deployments. The ability to swap slots in Azure would be a welcome feature.
Some integration points with TeamCity could be improved. It's not easy to spot the version number/name of a build package in Octopus and track it against the version displayed in TeamCity. It's possible, but not at all easy.

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Software Architect

Omega Creations, LLCApparel & Fashion, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

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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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DevOps Manager

Advanced Imaging SolutionsInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Octopus Deploy 7.0

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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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Sr. Integration Developer / DevOps Engineer

NRECANon-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees

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Performance

CircleCI 7.9

Based on 4 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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DevOps Engineer

AviziaHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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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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Software Developer

iModulesComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

CircleCI 7.0

Based on 11 answers

CircleCI support is very strong. The strong community and culture around the product have created a lot of technical documentation around specific situations that make debugging issues very easy. Also, the new Orbs processes allows for open sourcing of simple, small application containers and makes supporting that code for other very easy.

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Security Engineer

DatadogComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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VP Engineering

UserTesting.comInternet, 201-500 employees

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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)

Senior ASP.NET Web Application Engineer

Bross GroupComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Head of Development Technologies

Top Floor TechnologiesInternet, 11-50 employees

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Significantly reduced deployment errors, which significantly reduced downtime.
Made the time spend by DevOps teams more effective.
Reduced downtime through the management of password resets and certs.

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Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)

Open Technology Solutions, LLCFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

CircleCI Editions & Modules

Edition

Free	$0¹
Performance	$30¹
Scale	Custom Pricing
Server	$35³

per month
per month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Octopus Deploy Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Server	Free¹
Server	Starting at $2,300²

up to 10 deployment targets
per 25 deployment targets/per year

SaaS Edition

Cloud	Free¹
Cloud	Starting at $99²

up to 10 deployment targets
per 11 targets/per month

Additional Pricing Details

Monthly prices increase based on the number of deployment targets.

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