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GoCD vs Jenkins comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

GoCD
Ranking in Build Automation
21st
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (22nd), Release Automation (16th)
Jenkins
Ranking in Build Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
93
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of GoCD is 2.9%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 10.5%, up from 9.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Build Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Jenkins10.5%
GoCD2.9%
Other86.6%
Build Automation
 

Featured Reviews

RajeshReddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Infosys
The UI is colorful, but the user experience must be improved
We can see all the pipelines with a simple search. The UI is colorful. The user experience is very rich. The product is very easy to learn if we know a bit of the basics. If we have someone to show us how to use it, it is very easy.
HG
Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Automated pipelines have halved deployment time and allow developers to focus only on coding
The best features that Jenkins offers me are high customizability along with the support of Groovy language, which allows me to write my own functions and logic to deploy applications and configure the pipeline according to my use case. Its high integration capability with many plugins is also a significant advantage. For example, we have certain cloud functions running on Google Cloud Run, and we deploy those in the form of containers. Jenkins is highly integratable with Docker through plugins, so we installed those plugins in Jenkins and provided the credentials and logic for execution. Additionally, we have a Bitbucket environment and AWS deployments where we also use Jenkins' strong AWS plugins to deploy resources effectively. Thanks to these plugins, it's easy to deploy rather than creating custom logic. I have covered pretty much everything about the features of Jenkins.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"After we switched to GO, each team can set-up their own delivery pipeline and run it themselves."
"GoCD's open-source nature is valuable."
"In terms of value added it has more than achieved everything we wanted from it and more."
"Permission separations mean that we can grant limited permissions for each team or team member."
"The most notable aspect is its user interface, which we find to be user-friendly and straightforward for deploying and comprehending pipelines. We have the ability to create multiple pipelines, and in addition to that, the resource consumption is impressive."
"The UI is colorful."
"It has a user-friendly interface, which for free and open-source tools, the UI is really amazing and simple."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that there are multiple features, as we can abstract certain variables and then build our deployment routine while being able to do some abstraction onto the SSH connections."
"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."
"Do it! There's really no way you can lose."
"The solution is scalable and has a large number of plugins that can help you scale it to your needs."
"By reducing deployment time by 50 to 60%, we are able to ship code to production more quickly—previously it took six to seven hours, and now it takes only about one hour to deploy an application."
"With Jenkins, the pipeline will take your code from any versioning system like GitHub or Bitbucket, all the security scans can happen in one go and then all the tests also get run, and you can just build one container in it and deploy it."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration with GitHub, and the automation for deployment."
"Jenkins is a very mature product."
 

Cons

"The tool must be more user-friendly."
"It is difficult to assign different access levels because it relies on separate keys for developer and admin access, which could be simplified."
"The aspect that requires attention is the user management component. When integrating with BitLabs and authenticating through GitLab, there are specific features we desire. One important feature is the ability to import users directly from GitLab, along with their respective designations, and assign appropriate privileges based on that information. Allocating different privileges to users is a time-consuming process for us."
"GO doesn't come with a lot of out of the box features like other tools, don't expect that you can get it to work by clicking the NEXT button."
"The documentation really should be improved by including real examples and more setup cases."
"User management, Documentation, Advanced GUI functionality."
"The solution could improve by having more advanced integrations."
"I rate Jenkins two out of 10. If you think it's going to save you money because it's open source, think again."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"We cannot change the ownership of any directory or file or any kind of directory."
"Jenkins is an old product, and we encounter performance issues and slow response. Also, some of the plugins are not stable."
"The bug fix speed is very slow."
"Jenkins can improve by continuing to add additional plugins for all the new solutions that are coming out within the cloud sphere."
"Jenkins has no pipelines support by default."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's an open-source and free tool."
"This is an open-source solution and it is inexpensive."
"It is a free product."
"Jenkins is open source and free."
"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."
"I used the free OSS version all the time. It was enough for all my needs."
"There is no cost. It is open source."
"Jenkins is an open-source platform."
"The solution is open source."
"We are using the free version of Jenkins. There are no costs or licensing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise58
 

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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 proprietary tools.
What needs improvement with Jenkins?
I do not have any notes for improvement.
 

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