Jenkins vs Nx comparison

Jenkins and Nx are both solutions in the Build Automation category. Jenkins is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.1, while Nx is ranked #20 with an average rating of 7.0. Jenkins holds a 11.3% mindshare in BA, compared to Nx’s 2.3% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Jenkins users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nx users who would recommend it.

Jenkins

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87% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Ranking in Build Automation

20th

Average Rating

7.0

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Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Jenkins is 11.3%, down from 14.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nx is 2.3%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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reviewer2088321

Sales Associate at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Easy to use and works right away

There are aspects of Nx that could be improved, particularly the desktop interface, which I find quite unappealing, mostly in black and white. I used Nx in the past on an older Mac, and it seemed more accessible then. The challenge lies in the small space and difficulties in saving. If these issues can be addressed, Nx could become a more user-friendly and effective solution. In the future, to improve Nx, I think enhancing the partition manager in TDE would be beneficial. Currently, it lacks features like specifying the Mount Point, which is important for organizing the root and other directories. The Nx Partition Manager does a decent job, but there is room for improvement. Additionally, it would be great if the installation process could provide more details on what Nx is doing, especially regarding networking 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

"I can install Jenkins for integration from multiple developers and automate application delivery, staging, and production environments."

"The deployment of traditional Jenkins is easy."

"There are a large number of plugins available for integration with third party systems."

"Jenkins is a very mature product."

"Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform."

"We are using the open-source version and there is a lot of plugins and features that are available and it works on agents for free. In other solutions, it will cost extra to use them with the agent."

"This solution has helped us in automating the build and test process, reducing time."

"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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"I really like Nx because it is easy to use and works right away."

Cons

"The documentation on plugin development could be better: more examples. "

"Jenkins is an old product, and we encounter performance issues and slow response. Also, some of the plugins are not stable."

"Adding support for OIDC and internal user databases simultaneously would improve Jenkins."

"The disadvantage of Jenkins is writing Groovy scripts. There are other CI tools where you do not need to write this many scripts to manage and deploy."

"I would like to have an integrated dashboard on top of it and a better UX to look at. The dashboard could be better in terms of integration with other tools. We should be able to have a single pane of glass across all the tools that we use where Jenkins is the pipeline. This can be a very good upgrade to it."

"The user interface could be improved, and its reporting capabilities need enhancement. The plugins could be more effective."

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

"Jenkins could simplify the user interface a little bit because it sometimes creates too many features cramped in the UI."

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"There are aspects of Nx that could be improved, particularly the desktop interface, which I find quite unappealing, mostly in black and white."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Jenkins is not expensive and reasonably priced."

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

"It is free."

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

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

"Jenkins is an open-source platform."

"It is a cheap solution."

"The tool is open-source."

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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

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

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 requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very e...

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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 proprietary tools.

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What do you like most about Nx?

I really like Nx because it is easy to use and works right away.

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What needs improvement with Nx?

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What advice do you have for others considering Nx?

Overall, I would rate Nx as a seven out of ten.

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Jenkins

Overview

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

Nx makes scaling easy. Modern techniques such as distributed task execution and computation caching make sure your CI times remain fast, even as you keep adding projects to your workspace.

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Airial, Clarus Financial Technology, cubetutor, Metawidget, mysocio, namma, silverpeas, Sokkva, So Rave, tagzbox

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