Bamboo vs GitHub Actions comparison

Atlassian and GitHub are both solutions in the Build Automation category. Atlassian is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while GitHub is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5. Atlassian holds a 4.2% mindshare in BA, compared to GitHub’s 7.0% mindshare. Additionally, 78% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of GitHub users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Bamboo and GitHub Actions are both tools used in continuous integration and deployment, with unique strengths catering to different needs. GitHub Actions has a slight edge due to its user-friendly automation and integration capabilities within GitHub, compared to Bamboo's intricate integration with Atlassian products.

Features: Bamboo offers seamless integration with Atlassian products like Jira, flexibility in setting up complex pipelines, and multi-environment deployment capabilities. Salesforce and Oracle integrations add value to its ecosystem. GitHub Actions provides easy automation with GitHub, efficient scalability, and support for versatile workflow creation, enhancing project efficiency.

Room for Improvement: Bamboo could improve ease of use, plugin support, and UI complexity. It also lacks Docker support and better version control in plans. Enhancements in integration and user training would boost its utility. GitHub Actions needs better artifact management, improved logging, expanded language support, and enhanced integration processes to improve user experience further.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bamboo is primarily on-premises or hybrid cloud-based, offering less flexibility compared to GitHub Actions, which excels in public cloud deployment, ensuring easy scalability. Bamboo receives positive feedback for customer service but occasionally faces delays. GitHub Actions benefits from strong community support, although its server-less nature presents different technical support challenges.

Pricing and ROI: Bamboo's cost is affected by the use of agents, leading to higher expenses for large setups, with subscription models and hardware costs adding up. GitHub Actions, being mostly free or low-cost, is advantageous for small-scale or open-source projects, despite additional fees for enterprise-level usage. Both tools offer significant ROI by optimizing workflows and saving time.

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Categories and Ranking

Bamboo

Ranking in Build Automation

11th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

GitHub Actions

Ranking in Build Automation

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Bamboo is 4.2%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GitHub Actions is 7.0%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
GitHub Actions	7.0%
Bamboo	4.2%
Other	88.8%

Build Automation

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Christo Louw

Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Automation has streamlined build and deployment workflows and provides clear project reporting

Regarding improvements for Bamboo, I can't think of anything right now. Bamboo is serving the purpose that we needed it for. I would say pipelines for model building could be an area of focus. However, I can't really comment on that because I haven't looked at Bamboo to assist with machine learning pipelines. If they haven't focused on building MLOps pipelines, that's definitely an area where they could assist businesses. I haven't looked at what Bamboo offers for MLOps, so it's possible that they've already built in features. Machine learning and AI are in big demand at the moment. If they haven't focused too much on MLOps, that's probably where they can improve.

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Bharadwaj Deepak Mohapatra

DevOps Engineer at ENTERPRISE SYSTEM SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Has supported repository management and demonstrates potential in workflow flexibility

While GitHub Actions offers a range of functionalities, it is newer compared to more established tools such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps. There is still room for improvement, especially in areas concerning deeper capabilities akin to those provided by Jenkins and Azure DevOps. Given the evolving nature of technology, there are potential improvements GitHub Actions can focus on, including enhancing support and reliability to match its competitors.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo, is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system."

"It can do the CI pipeline well."

"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."

"Thanks to Bamboo we are able to build changes made by development quite quickly and allow them to deploy to our internal environments when needed (as well as automated during the night)."

"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."

"Ability to interface easily with other Atlassian applications."

"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work; we have many Atlassian products, including Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and other Atlassian plugins, and we like that it's easy to integrate them with each other as a suite of services."

"With Bamboo's integration with Jira, we were able to update build status and test reports to Jira bugs/tasks."

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"It saves a lot of time with GitHub Actions; especially, the whole process if done manually might cost us a lot, maybe a week or two weeks just for deployment, but now with automation, we automate the deployment effectively."

"The main benefit is collaboration. It allows us to easily collaborate with other developers, regardless of location. For example, we can collaborate with both our African and German colleagues seamlessly. It's platform-agnostic, so it is flexible and not tied to any OS, so we can work on Linux, Windows, web, and even Oracle applications. It's flexible, reliable, and overall an excellent tool for our needs."

"It is a very stable solution as we have not faced any issues."

"GitHub Actions can be easily configured, especially for environment variables and secrets. The UI is understandable and user-friendly for setting up CI/CD pipelines. I prefer tools like GitLab, where the pipeline starts quickly and is accessible near the commits for easy access. However, many CI/CD tools are interchangeable due to similar features of GitHub Actions and other similar tools."

"It is easy to use, especially if you are accustomed to using GitHub."

"The product's most beneficial feature is the ability to create workflows within the solution."

"We can trigger files manually or automate processes."

"GitHub Actions is valuable for its ease of use and integration."

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Cons

"Yes, it needs to allow multiple plans to run on an agent at the same time; dedicating one whole agent is not fair, and in terms of buying and maintaining more infrastructure, it is not scalable either."

"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."

"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."

"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."

"The REST API for our deployment project is still very basic and lacks the ability to provide a decent amount of custom automation."

"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."

"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."

"It can be challenging for someone new to the system or ecosystem to grasp, making it difficult to train new people and help them understand."

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"There could be more integration options with different platforms."

"The main challenge I've experienced is with integration, particularly uploading to OneDrive, which was more complex compared to Google Drive or AWS S3 bucket."

"GitHub sometimes makes it difficult to debug actions."

"In terms of improvements, I think better logging for debugging purposes would be helpful, especially for complex workflows."

"There is a part that detects outdated libraries. If that feature could be more intuitive and informative, that would be nice."

"The UI could be better."

"Sometimes it is quite complex to commit code from our local system to the GitHub repository; creating a folder in GitHub can be tedious."

"GitHub Actions lacks a feature for automating the build process for mobile applications."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"If Bamboo could provide more flexibility on pricing, that would help. On the agent side, if you want to increase the number of agents it should be less expensive. If they can provide some better pricing model, it will help, whether we are going to use it or are already using it."

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

"The server products for small teams used to offer excellent pricing. However, Atlassian has since changed the offering and the pricing is more expensive. I do still think the solution offers good value for money."

"I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five."

"It is free and open platform, so I would rate it 1 out of 10."

"The product is slightly more expensive than some alternatives."

"Price-wise, GitHub Actions is okay. If I want to use the product's advanced features, then I need to pay the licensing charges for the solution."

"For our basic usage, we didn't have to pay."

"It's low-priced. Not high, but definitely low."

"The cost for GitHub Actions may be around $45 dollars per user."

"The tool's price is okay and reasonable."

"Regarding cost, as an enterprise, we negotiate our license and expenses, so I can't provide a specific rating for that."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

10%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bamboo?

I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five.

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What needs improvement with Bamboo?

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What is your primary use case for Bamboo?

My current use case for Bamboo is not as active as it once was. The team that I worked for still uses it, but I don't work on it as much anymore. Basically, Bamboo is used for CI/CD pipelines to bu...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitHub Actions?

I would rate pricing a seven, which leans toward the expensive side. However, there is still value for money, and that's why we continue using it.

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What needs improvement with GitHub Actions?

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What is your primary use case for GitHub Actions?

The main use case for GitHub Actions is maintaining enterprise repositories in private for security reasons, because we have multiple enterprise clients. We're using the premium GitHub service for ...

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Overview

Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It works great alongside JIRA and Stash providing a fully traceable deployment pipeline.

Atlassian

GitHub Actions streamlines CI/CD processes with an intuitive YAML workflow and robust automation, enhancing efficiency and integration with third-party tools and cloud providers.

GitHub Actions automates development pipelines, supports scalable public and private runners, and manages secure secrets. This tool integrates seamlessly with platforms like AWS, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and Databricks. It enhances DevOps workflows with reliable task automation. Users note areas for UI and deployment tool improvements, artifact management simplification, and additional programming language support. Debugging complexity and hosting agent transitions pose challenges, along with integration enhancements for tools like OneDrive.

What are GitHub Actions' key features?

YAML Workflow Creation: Simplifies configuration with intuitive YAML.
CI/CD Integration: Provides seamless integration within DevOps pipelines.
Automation Capabilities: Automates tasks with minimal manual intervention.
Third-Party Tool Compatibility: Works well with diverse tools and platforms.
Secure Secrets Management: Protects sensitive information effectively.

What benefits do users find in GitHub Actions?

Enhanced Performance: Boosts task execution speed and reliability.
Scalability: Supports growth with flexible runner options.
Improved Release Cycles: Ensures consistent updates and deployments.
Workflow Efficiency: Reduces manual tasks, increasing operational efficiency.

Companies in tech and software development frequently utilize GitHub Actions for integrating, deploying, and versioning projects. It is often employed for deploying applications to cloud environments like AWS and Kubernetes, managing extensive CI/CD workflows, and automating test and security operations, thereby streamlining production cycles across industries.

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Sample Customers

Neocleus, MuleSoft, Interspire

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