We performed a comparison between Jenkins 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."We can schedule anything with Jenkins, which is useful for deployment or anything that requires scheduling. It also has multiple plugins we can use for Maven, JUnit, etc."
"Has enabled full automation of the company."
"Jenkins has excellent task planning features."
"Jenkins integrates with multiple tools like Bitbucket and makes life easier. We don't have to write a lot of code since a lot of libraries are available."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration between different tools."
"We are using the open-source version and there is a lot of plugins and features that are available and it works on agents for free. In other solutions, it will cost extra to use them with the agent."
"We use Jenkins to automatically build Python binaries into several OS's i.e. OS X, Ubuntu, Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit."
"Distributed execution of build and test jobs."
"Time to deployment has been reduced in situations where we want to deploy to production or deploy breaking changes."
"TeamCity is very useful due to the fact that it has a strong plug-in system."
"VCS Trigger: Provides excellent source control support."
"The flexibility of TeamCity allows it to fit in workflows that I have yet to imagine."
"The integration is a valuable feature."
"TeamCity's GUI is nice."
"It's easy to move to a new release because of templates and meta-runners, and agent pooling."
"Using TeamCity and emailing everyone on fail is one way to emphasize the importance of testing code and showing management why taking the time to test actually does saves time from having to fix bugs on the other end."
"It would be better if there were an option to remove its Java dependency. This would make it more compatible with other software, and it could be much better. At present, we have to depend on Java whenever we want to deploy agents."
"Partition security for the workflow of projects is not yet an option."
"Logging could be improved to offer a clearer view."
"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."
"Jenkins relies on the old version of interface for configuration management. This needs improvement."
"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."
"The bug fix speed is very slow."
"Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."
"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."
"The UI for this solution could be improved. New users don't find it easy to navigate. The need some level of training to understand the ins and the outs."
"It will benefit this solution if they keep up to date with other CI/CD systems out there."
"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."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. Upgrading major versions can often cause some pain."
"Last time I used it, dotnet compilation had to be done via PowerShell scripts. There was actually a lot that had to be scripted."
"If there was more documentation that was easier to locate, it would be helpful for users."
"Their online documentation is fairly extensive, but sometimes you can end up navigating in circles to find answers. I would like them (or partner with someone) to provide training classes to help newcomers get things up and running more quickly."
Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews while TeamCity is ranked 6th in Build Automation with 25 reviews. Jenkins is rated 8.0, while TeamCity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TeamCity writes "Build management system used to successfully create full request tests and run security scans". Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Digital.ai Release , whereas TeamCity is most compared with GitLab, CircleCI, Harness, Tekton and GitHub Actions. See our Jenkins vs. TeamCity report.
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