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Based on 29 reviews and ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Crucible is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
- Perforce Helix Core is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
Crucible
75%
5 Ratings

10.0
Perforce Helix Core
100%
12 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
Crucible
N/A
0 Ratings

6.6
Perforce Helix Core
66%
5 Ratings
Usability
Crucible
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
Perforce Helix Core
100%
2 Ratings
Availability
Crucible
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
Perforce Helix Core
90%
2 Ratings
Performance
Crucible
N/A
0 Ratings

6.0
Perforce Helix Core
60%
2 Ratings
Support Rating
9.3
Crucible
93%
3 Ratings

8.9
Perforce Helix Core
89%
5 Ratings
Implementation Rating
Crucible
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
Perforce Helix Core
70%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Crucible
Crucible is well suited for situations where development teams follow a branch-based merge process, where new features or automation stories are introduced. It allows more seasoned team members to check newer team members' code to ensure standards are followed. It is probably less appropriate for smaller development teams or smaller projects, where code reviews can be less formal.

Verified User
Team Lead in Quality Assurance
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employeesPerforce Helix Core
While Perforce Helix is the best version control software out there, it can also be used to track your documentation, training videos and materials, and requirements. If you have strict compliance requirements, it can be used to ensure that those requirements are satisfied.Perforce Helix is incredibly flexible and can meet the needs of individual users as well as companies with thousands of users.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Crucible
- Supports all major source control systems such as SVN and Git.
- Integration with Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket, to have a complete end to end development experience.
- Easy to use UI/UX for reviewing code changes amongst different team members.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employeesPerforce Helix Core
- The branching mechanisms in Perforce allow for an enormous codebase to be duplicated into release versions weekly with little impact upon things such as the speed of queries against the version control.
- Action triggers permit such things as automated builds of software versions, dynamic messaging when issues are identified either within or prior to a build process, and much more.
- Locking provides the ability to prevent modifications of stable, tested versions in order to ensure validity when they are released.

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Marketing and Advertising Company, 5001-10,000 employeesCons
Crucible
- Crucible notifications of changes or updates to the code review are delayed as well as loading more source code is slow.
- Crucible is formatting could use improvements for viewing customization features. For instance, allowing the user to create a new tab per file to be reviewed would be nice to have.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Investment Management Company, 1001-5000 employeesPerforce Helix Core
- Perforce tends to feel backwards in how it approaches certain tasks, like branching and integrating - even once you figure out how it wants you to perform these tasks, you will likely forget when it comes around to the next time you need to do them again.
- Perforce has a higher price tag, comparatively.
- Perforce make some tasks very easy, and yet other tasks very difficult - it doesn't always seem to have found its target user's proficiency.
Senior Software Engineer
AMDSemiconductors, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Crucible
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Perforce Helix Core
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Crucible
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Perforce Helix Core
Perforce Helix Core 6.6
Based on 5 answers
We are fully committed to our use of Perforce. It works well within our organization and our desire to share our code base with our customers. Their support staff are responsive, inquisitive, and eager to improve their software. I feel like we have a direct line to their design/feature team as they often solicit our feedback.
Senior Gameplay Programmer
Epic GamesComputer Games, 201-500 employees
Usability
Crucible
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Perforce Helix Core
Perforce Helix Core 10.0
Based on 2 answers
With Perforce Helix, you can use it via the command line, via P4V, or any of the other APIs included with the product. It is extremely easy for new users to get up and running. Users of Perforce Helix only have to pull in the files of interest to them. Also, Perforce is very easy to script and integrate into your CI/CD pipeline. Streams allows you to have pinpoint control of your workflow, and P4Search is the absolute best--I wish Perforce (the company) would talk more about this. It is absolutely fabulous!

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesReliability and Availability
Crucible
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Perforce Helix Core
Perforce Helix Core 9.0
Based on 2 answers
In our large environment, Perforce is rarely "down". We have regular maintenance windows and from time to time Perforce can feel a little slow, but its always available. Tech support has always worked with our engineers and IT department to make sure that any real performance or stability issues are addressed quickly.
Senior Gameplay Programmer
Epic GamesComputer Games, 201-500 employees
Support Rating
Crucible
Crucible 9.3
Based on 3 answers
Good support overall being an Atlassian product, with options including free/paid official support and community provided help.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employeesPerforce Helix Core
Perforce Helix Core 8.9
Based on 5 answers
I had two representatives from Perforce contact me after downloading it but never responded when I had questions. I also had a difficult time finding good training material for getting started. There is a lot of available support material when running into issues, though, because of how many large companies use it.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Industrial Automation Company, 10,001+ employeesImplementation Rating
Crucible
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Perforce Helix Core
Perforce Helix Core 7.0
Based on 2 answers
This rating is related to setting up an environment from an existing Perforce repository. Initial setup of Perforce as the repository for the company was done by a separate team long prior to my inception.

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Marketing and Advertising Company, 5001-10,000 employeesAlternatives Considered
Crucible
Crucible was first on the market and the price is inexpensive. Crucible integrates with Jira Software and Atlassian Fisheye, providing the ability to track defects efficiently. SonarQube compares code to 'best standards' but not 'internal standards' and does not integrate to issue tracking. GitHub offers effective peer review, and has some integration with GitHub issues but costs more.
Systems Administrator/Programmer
Indiana UniversityHigher Education, 10,001+ employees
Perforce Helix Core
Perforce has a better built native visual client that is much simpler to use than Git's. It has a lot of optimizations in the workflow that can execute common patterns during a usual workday. Perforce also has an easier to understand method of presenting merge conflicts and does a better overall job of handling merges.
Senior Firmware Engineer
Spirent CommunicationsTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
Crucible
- It has had a large ROI for our team, as it has helped us find issues sooner than we would have had we not reviewed things properly.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employeesPerforce Helix Core
- Decreased our implementation costs by allowing versioning and back out of customizations made in the field.
- saves developers time through automation of changes between branches - they think less of the plumbing and have more time to write code.
- Downside is training/managing expectations of new developers who come in assuming they will use Git.

Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees