Bamboo vs Jenkins comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Jenkins and Bamboo are prominent tools in the CI/CD category, each offering distinct advantages for continuous integration and delivery. Based on various features, Jenkins holds an edge due to its extensive plugin ecosystem and automation capabilities, while Bamboo benefits from seamless integration with Atlassian products.

Features: Jenkins offers a vast array of plugins, enabling high customization and integration with numerous tools, along with support for multiple programming languages. Its automation and scalability are substantial strengths. Bamboo integrates seamlessly with Atlassian tools like Jira and Bitbucket, offering built-in deployment projects and user-friendly configurations for custom actions. It delivers a cohesive experience for teams within the Atlassian ecosystem.

Room for Improvement: Jenkins faces challenges with plugin stability, documentation complexity, and cloud integration. Users seek enhancements in the user interface and clearer error messaging. Bamboo has a steep learning curve and its integration capabilities outside the Atlassian ecosystem are limited. Improvements are needed in governance processes and training options. Both tools require better ease of use and setup, with Jenkins needing improved plugin management and Bamboo requiring more flexibility in customizations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jenkins is versatile, being deployed across on-premises and various cloud environments, but is often reliant on community-based support. Bamboo’s deployment options are primarily on-premises, with some hybrid cloud capabilities, and it benefits from structured Atlassian support, offering more integrated assistance for users within the Atlassian framework.

Pricing and ROI: Jenkins is cost-effective with its open-source nature, providing significant savings on CI/CD operations. It offers an enterprise version that comes with a commercial license. Bamboo, operating on a subscription model, is perceived as reasonably priced, especially for teams using multiple Atlassian products. Jenkins provides substantial ROI through its free structure, while Bamboo offers value with its integration capabilities and licensed support.

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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

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Bamboo is 4.3%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 7.2%, down from 11.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Jenkins	7.2%
Bamboo	4.3%
Other	88.5%

Build Automation

Featured Reviews

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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Jamshaid I

Principal Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Efficient resource allocation and robust workflow with autoscaling capabilities

In Kubernetes, we use node-based architecture with nodes and pods and follow practices like RBAC and rollback. Multiple pods can run concurrently. We benefit from Kubernetes' ability to autoscale pods and use horizontal pod autoscalers to adjust the number of pods based on metrics like CPU or memory usage, ensuring efficient resource allocation and stability under load.

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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

"The most useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor."

"One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing."

"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."

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

"The tool is useful for continuous deployment."

"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."

"The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community."

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"It is very useful for us to be able to collect and manage automatic processing pipelines."

"Jenkins is very customizable."

"It's a powerful tool for CI/CD."

"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that there are multiple features. We can abstract certain variables and then build our deployment routine while being able to do some abstraction onto the SSH connections."

"Having builds and test tasks triggered on commit helps not to break the product."

"The deployment of traditional Jenkins is easy."

"Configuration management: It is so easy to configure a Jenkins instance. Migrate configuration to a new environment just by copying XML files and setting up new nodes."

"It offers continuous deployment and continuous testing. It enables us to figure out anything."

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Cons

"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."

"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."

"Bamboo can improve by providing more with scripting, such as they have with Jenkins. Bamboo is more UI-driven at this time, Jenkins is going in that direction too."

"Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall short compared to others. Initially, it was difficult for us because the plugins were very limited."

"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 tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."

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

"One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area."

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"Jenkins is an open-source solution, and people tend to stay on the same version for a long time. When you look for an answer on Google, you often find something that doesn't relate to your implementation. The plugins are both the aspect of Jenkins and also one of the worst because the plugins can have different versions, so it's hard to figure out how to solve the problems."

"Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."

"In our case, we have several products built using Jenkins. It is quite difficult to navigate into the latest stable build in a given OS."

"We need more licensed product integrations."

"I sometimes face a bottleneck when installing the plugins on an offline machine. Mapping the dependencies and then installing the correct sequence of dependencies is a nightmare, and it took me two days to do it."

"We cannot change the ownership of any directory or file or any kind of directory."

"Performance-wise. This needs to be improved. Not only performance-wise, some functionality or some features can be added to Jenkins."

"The upgrades need improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

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

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

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

"Jenkins is not expensive and reasonably priced."

"In our company, we do pay for the licensing of the solution."

"This is an open-source solution for the basic features. However, if an organization wishes to include specific functionality, outside of the basic package, there are extra costs involved."

"Jenkins is open-source, so it is free."

"It could be cheaper because there are many solutions available in the market. We are paying yearly."

"The solution is one of the lowest costs compared to competitors."

"The open-source version is free, but small companies would not be able to afford the cloud-based version."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Government

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

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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	28
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	56

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Bamboo?

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

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bamboo?

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

What needs improvement with Bamboo?

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What do you like most about Jenkins?

Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jenkins?

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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

Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

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