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%

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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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reviewer2787357

Site Reliability Engineer 2 at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Automation has transformed our delivery pipeline and saves time by removing manual deployment work

While Jenkins is powerful, many teams face pain points and limitations. The biggest area where Jenkins could improve, based on real DevOps use cases, is messy plugin management, which is one of the biggest complaints. Jenkins relies heavily on plugins, which is both its strength and its weakness. The problem is there are too many plugins, and version conflicts can arise between them. Updates sometimes break pipelines, which is a real pain point. For instance, if you update a Docker plugin, the pipeline could suddenly fail. Many times, using tools such as Docker or Kubernetes leads to plugin compatibility issues. Here, improvements are needed for better plugin stability, automatic compatibility checks, and a simpler update process. The second pain point is that the UI is outdated and complex. Jenkins' UI feels old compared to modern DevOps tools, making it not very user-friendly for beginners, and difficult to find settings. Job configuration is also confusing, and the dashboard looks outdated. Improvements are needed for a modern, cleaner interface, easier navigation, and better pipeline visualization. Additionally, scaling Jenkins is difficult in large companies running many pipelines, causing the Jenkins master to become slow with high CPU and memory usage, leading to build queue delays. Agent management becomes complex, and teams using cloud solutions such as AWS often require extra configuration for scaling. Improvements are necessary for better cloud-native scaling, auto-scaling agents, performance optimizations, and easier distributed setups.

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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 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."

"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."

"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."

"It can do the CI pipeline 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."

"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'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."

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"We really appreciate that this solution is plug and play. When coding in the version control system, this product completes the build process automatically."

"Jenkins is a CI/CD tool and is the most robust tool."

"We significantly reduced build times of large projects (more than 80k lines of Scala code) using build time on Jenkins as a time sample. It reduced the developer write-test-commit cycle time, and increased productivity."

"The initial setup is simple."

"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration with GitHub, and the automation for deployment."

"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud."

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

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

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Cons

"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."

"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."

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

"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."

"From my personal experience regarding scalability and the ability to scale, I find that sometimes the agents run out of resources and then it takes quite a while to get additional infrastructure."

"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."

"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."

"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."

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

"For this solution to be a 10, it has to be a lot more stable. Maybe the public version of Jenkins is stable, but in our case it's not stable."

"Jenkins relies on the old version of interface for configuration management. This needs improvement."

"I would like them to provide space for people to have a central node that stores all the logs of workspace information in a distributed fashion to facilitate backup and restoration. Currently, everything is stored on one node, so you need to set up distributed storage or an endpoint that you can use for backing up your information."

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

"While Jenkins is powerful, many teams face pain points and limitations."

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

"Partition security for the workflow of projects is not yet an option."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"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."

"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."

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

"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."

"We use the tool's open-source version which is free. There is an enterprise version which is expensive but comes with better support."

"I used the free OSS version all the time. It was enough for all my needs."

"It is an open source."

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

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

"The solution is open source."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

Government

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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	57

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?

Jenkins is used in many companies to save money, especially within R&D divisions, by avoiding the expenses of proprietary tools.

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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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