GitLab vs Jenkins vs TeamCity comparison

GitLab and Jenkins are both solutions in the Build Automation category. GitLab is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6, while Jenkins is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.1. GitLab holds a 16.6% mindshare in BA, compared to Jenkins’s 10.4% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of GitLab users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Jenkins users who would recommend it.

GitLab

Read 82 GitLab reviews

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97% willing to recommend

Jenkins

Read 93 Jenkins reviews

4,156 Views
3,557 Comparison Views

87% willing to recommend

TeamCity

Read 28 TeamCity reviews

2,185 Views
1,937 Comparison Views

90% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between GitLab, Jenkins, and TeamCity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of GitLab is 16.6%, down from 18.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 10.4%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TeamCity is 7.7%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Gaurav Chandel

AWS DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineer at Tata Consultancy

Boosted productivity with automated pipelines and seamless collaboration

There are some challenges with repository file management as GitLab may struggle to manage larger files. Improvements could be made regarding size management and file partitioning. Also, the UI has remained the same for a couple of years and could benefit from an update with AI features and better customization.

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Dinesh-Patil

Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment

The dashboard needs to be improved. Though the access management and authentication functionalities are present, the dashboard and UI could be more user-friendly. The product has many plug-ins. Users have to go through the documentation to be able to use the product. The UI must be more user-friendly. The information should be available in the dashboard itself. The users shouldn’t have to refer to the documentation. When a user hovers over the elements on the dashboard, it should reveal information about them.

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Omakoji Idakwoji

Software Engineer at Home Depot

Build management system used to successfully create full request tests and run security scans

I find the TeamCity backend easily accessible. Users can login to the Linux servers that TeamCity is installed on and perform operations. Also I find the ability to template solutions using the meta runner a good feature as well as the user management feature. There is a display that shows which user made recent changes to a branch on GitHub, including the time the changes were made and the particular agent that ran the job. This is also a very useful feature. The metrics and audit available for projects, pipelines and jobs come in handy when debugging.

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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

"It scales well."

"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."

"The best thing is that as the developers work on separate tasks, all of the code goes there and the other team members don't have to wait on each other to finish."

"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."

"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."

"I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."

"They incorporate new features every September, and they have introduced their own code editor and AI features."

"We use GitLab in the new project for CI/CD, integration, and deployment."

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"Has enabled full automation of the company."

"Jenkins has a lot of built-in packages and tools."

"The deployment of traditional Jenkins is easy."

"The most valuable features are Jenkins Pipelines for ALM and full Deploy Cycle."

"The initial setup is simple."

"Very easy to understand for newcomers."

"Distributed execution of build and test jobs."

"Continuous Integration. Jenkins can integrate with almost any systems used for application development and testing, with its plugins."

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"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."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its easy configuration. It also has multiple plugins that can be used especially for building .net applications."

"The flexibility of TeamCity allows it to fit in workflows that I have yet to imagine."

"TeamCity's GUI is nice."

"The integration is a valuable feature."

"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."

"We would like to see better integration with other version controls, since we encountered difficulty when this we first attempted."

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Cons

"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."

"I'm new to GitLab, so I would appreciate more documentation about the code and commands."

"The integration could be slightly better."

"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."

"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."

"It has fewer options, and its UI is not so user-friendly."

"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."

"GitLab can improve its user interface to make conflict resolution more user-friendly."

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"The product should provide more visualization as to how many pipelines are performing and how many builds are happening. It should also integrate with Kubernetes and OpenShift."

"It would be helpful if they had a bit more interactive UI."

"Jenkins can sometimes run slow, especially when restarting after a plugin installation or when returning from a pipeline view to the dashboard."

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

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

"Jenkins should adopt the Pipeline as Code approach by building a deployment pipeline using the Jenkins file."

"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of an Artifactory (Universal artifact repository manager)."

"I do not have any notes for improvement."

More Jenkins cons

"REST API support lacks many features in customization of builds, jobs, and settings."

"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."

"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."

"It will benefit this solution if they keep up to date with other CI/CD systems out there."

"If there was more documentation that was easier to locate, it would be helpful for users."

"The integration between other solutions and TeamCity could be smoother."

"Integrating with certain technologies posed challenges related to time and required support from the respective technology teams to ensure smooth integration with TeamCity."

"I need some more graphical design."

More TeamCity cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"GitLab is comparatively expensive, but it provides value because it's feature-rich."

"GitLab is a free solution to use."

"It is very expensive. We can't bear it now, and we have to find another solution. We have a yearly subscription in which we can increase the number of licenses, but we have to pay at the end of the year."

"We are currently using the open-source version."

"As I work in a vast enterprise, I'm unsure about the licensing cost for GitLab. It's the management team that takes care of that."

"The open-source version is very good and the commercial version is reasonably priced."

"The solution is free."

"My company uses the free version of GitLab, which is GitLab Community Edition. There is a licensed version also available for GitLab."

More GitLab pricing and cost advice

"It is a cheap solution."

"It is free."

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

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

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

"There is no cost. It is open source."

"The pricing for Jenkins is free."

"Jenkins is an open-source tool."

More Jenkins pricing and cost advice

"Start with the free tier for a few build configs and see how it works for you, then according to your scale find the enterprise license which fits you the most."

"The licensing is on an annual basis."

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Comparison Review

it_user184734

Systems Administrator at Facebook

Jan 22, 2015

I generally find TeamCity a lot more intuitive than Jenkins.

Moving to TeamCity from Jenkins At work, we’re slowly migrating from Jenkins to TeamCity in the hope of ending some of our recurring problems with continuous integration. My use of Jenkins prior to this job has been almost strictly on a personal basis, although I pretty much only use Travis…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

24%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GitLab?

I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provi...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitLab?

The pricing of GitLab is reasonable, aligning with what I consider to be average compared to competitors.

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What needs improvement with GitLab?

Certain features in Jira are not available in GitLab, such as the functionality to have weights at the milestone and ...

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How does Tekton compare with Jenkins?

When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requi...

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What do you like most about Jenkins?

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

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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 pro...

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What do you like most about TeamCity?

One of the most beneficial features for us is the flexibility it offers in creating deployment steps tailored to diff...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TeamCity?

Compared to new technologies, TeamCity is more expensive and is an older tool compared to tools like GitLab.

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What needs improvement with TeamCity?

TeamCity's user interface could be improved; specifically, the tree structure on the homepage is not clear, making it...

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Overview

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform that enables teams to collaborate and deliver software faster.

It provides a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle, from planning and development to testing, deployment, and monitoring.

With GitLab, teams can streamline their workflows, automate processes, and improve productivity.

GitLab

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

Jenkins

TeamCity is a Continuous Integration and Deployment server that provides out-of-the-box continuous unit testing, code quality analysis, and early reporting on build problems. A simple installation process lets you deploy TeamCity and start improving your release management practices in a matter of minutes. TeamCity supports Java, .NET and Ruby development and integrates perfectly with major IDEs, version control systems, and issue tracking systems.

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