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Based on 45 reviews and ratings
29 Ratings
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Based on 29 reviews and ratings
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.
DevOps Engineer
AviziaHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
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.

Verified User
Professional in Corporate
Research Company, 501-1000 employeesPros
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.
Senior Software Engineer
RocketripComputer Software, 11-50 employees
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.
Software Architect
Omega Creations, LLCApparel & Fashion, 51-200 employees
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
Platform Tech Lead
Booster FuelsTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 11-50 employees
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
Senior Software Engineer
Full Circle TMSComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Pricing Details
CircleCI
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0 per month
CircleCI Editions & Modules
Edition
Free | $01 |
---|---|
Performance | $301 |
Scale | Custom Pricing |
Server | $353 |
- per month
- none
- per month
Additional Pricing Details
—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
Server | Free 30 day trial1 |
---|---|
Server | Starting at $600 per year2 |
- unlimited targets/users/projects
- per 5 deployment targets/per year
SaaS Edition
Cloud | Free 30 day trial1 |
---|---|
Cloud | Starting at $50 per month2 |
- unlimited targets/users/projects
- 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.
DevOps Manager
Advanced Imaging SolutionsInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
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

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesOctopus 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.
Sr. Integration Developer / DevOps Engineer
NRECANon-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
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.
DevOps Engineer
AviziaHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
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.
Software Developer
iModulesComputer Software, 51-200 employees
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.

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesOctopus 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.
VP Engineering
UserTesting.comInternet, 201-500 employees
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.
Senior ASP.NET Web Application Engineer
Bross GroupComputer Software, 11-50 employees
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.
Head of Development Technologies
Top Floor TechnologiesInternet, 11-50 employees
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.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees