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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bamboo

Ranking in Build Automation

10th

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 January 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 7.5%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Jenkins	7.5%
Bamboo	4.3%
Other	88.2%

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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 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."

"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."

"The tool is useful for continuous deployment."

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

"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."

"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."

"The main benefits Bamboo provides for me and my team are the automation to pick up code changes and automate the deployments, building images."

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"Jenkins is free and open source."

"Jenkins' most valuable feature is Pipeline."

"It can scale easily."

"It's very useful when you want to automate different processes from beginning to end."

"It is open source, flexible, scalable, and easy to use. It is easy to maintain for the administrator. It is a continuous integration tool, and its enterprise version is quite mature. It has good integrations and plug-ins. Azure DevOps can also be integrated with Jenkins."

"Has enabled full automation of the company."

"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."

"The simplicity of Jenkins and the evolving ecosystem of Jenkins are most valuable. Today, you do not have to write a pipeline from scratch. The library functionality of Jenkins helps you to bring all those in ready-made, and you also get the best practices for them. That is a great feature of Jenkins, and that is why it is being used significantly."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them."

"Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added."

"The tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."

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"The onboarding of Jenkins should be smoother, and it should have more pipelines available as it's deployed on many different servers."

"The user interface could be updated a little."

"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."

"The documentation could be more friendly, and more examples of how to use it."

"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."

"The documentation is not helpful, as it is not user-friendly."

"Sometimes you have Jenkins restarting because of OOM errors."

"And I don't care too much for the Jenkins user interface. It's not that user-friendly compared to other solutions available right now. It's not a great user experience. You can do just fine if you are a techie, but it would take a novice some time to learn it and get things done."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"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."

"The solution is open source."

"The pricing for Jenkins is free."

"It's free software with a big community behind it, which is very good."

"It is free."

"Jenkins is an open-source tool."

"The tool is open-source."

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

"It is a free product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Government

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

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	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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