We performed a comparison between CircleCI and TeamCity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to automate the build process in a seamless way and run workflows effortlessly. It supports parallel builds so it can scale well. Also, it covers the basics of any build and integration tool, including email notifications (especially when tests are fixed), project insights, etc."
"The automation workflow in CircleCI related to third-party applications is very good and allows standardization of applications."
"The solution offers continuous integration and continuous delivery."
"Some of the most valuable features include container-based builds, integration with Bit Bucket and being able to store artifacts."
"It's a stable product."
"Enables us to detect exactly which build failed and why, and to push multiple builds to our production environment at a very fast rate."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its easy configuration. It also has multiple plugins that can be used especially for building .net applications."
"I have not yet implemented the remote build feature, but this will be a big plus. We want to be able to build legacy products on a build agent without developers needing to have obsolete tool sets installed on their local PC."
"Time to deployment has been reduced in situations where we want to deploy to production or deploy breaking changes."
"It's easy to move to a new release because of templates and meta-runners, and agent pooling."
"It provides repeatable CI/CD throughout our company with lots of feedback on failures and successes to the intended audiences via email and Slack."
"We would like to see better integration with other version controls, since we encountered difficulty when this we first attempted."
"Good integration with IDE and JetBrains products."
"The flexibility of TeamCity allows it to fit in workflows that I have yet to imagine."
"The solution’s pricing could be better."
"There needs to be some improvement in the user interface of CircleCI."
"Integration with Microsoft Azure is one area for improvement. Azure is growing in its user base, and supports various cloud infrastructure components such as Service Fabric, App Service, etc. Some of Azure’s deployment models (like Kudu) require a steep learning curve, but if CircleCI would come up with such features (deployment to App Service) out of the box, it would be amazing."
"Billing is a mess."
"We've called TeamCity tech support. Unfortunately, all their tech support is based in Europe, so we end up with such a big time crunch that I now need to have one person in the US."
"It will benefit this solution if they keep up to date with other CI/CD systems out there."
"Integrating with certain technologies posed challenges related to time and required support from the respective technology teams to ensure smooth integration with TeamCity."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. Upgrading major versions can often cause some pain."
"I need some more graphical design."
"If TeamCity could create more out of the box solutions to make it more user friendly and create more use cases, that would be ideal."
"Last time I used it, dotnet compilation had to be done via PowerShell scripts. There was actually a lot that had to be scripted."
"I would suggest creating simple and advanced configurations. Advanced configurations will give more customizations like Jenkins does."
CircleCI is ranked 11th in Build Automation with 5 reviews while TeamCity is ranked 6th in Build Automation with 25 reviews. CircleCI is rated 6.6, while TeamCity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CircleCI writes "Unhelpful support, unclear billing, and has offers ability to track usage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TeamCity writes "Build management system used to successfully create full request tests and run security scans". CircleCI is most compared with Tekton, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild and GoCD, whereas TeamCity is most compared with GitLab, Jenkins, Harness, GitHub Actions and Tekton. See our CircleCI vs. TeamCity report.
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