Jenkins vs Travis CI comparison

Jenkins and Travis CI are both solutions in the Build Automation category. Jenkins is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.1, while Travis CI is ranked #21 with an average rating of 6.0. Jenkins holds a 11.3% mindshare in BA, compared to Travis CI’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Jenkins users are willing to recommend the solution.

Jenkins

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87% willing to recommend

Travis CI

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0% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Jenkins and Travis CI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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

No ranking in other categories

Travis CI

Ranking in Build Automation

21st

Average Rating

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 Travis CI is 0.8%, down from 2.0% 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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Pravar Agrawal

Senior SRE at IBM

YAML-based configuration and simple deployment but user interface needs modernizing

Travis CI is an okay tool, and I am forced to use it as part of my job. I don't maintain it; it is running somewhere else, and I don't have control over it. The interface is very basic and not user-friendly; it feels like it was stuck in 2010. It is very basic and designed for lightweight CI work, and it cannot handle heavy CI. You cannot do branched flows, and you will have to write shell scripts to send calls here and there. The pipelines are not as detailed as some other CI/CD tools. If Travis is down, you don't have any control over it and need to reach out to their customer support.

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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 Jenkins are the integration of automatic scripts for testing and the user's ability to use any script."

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

"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its open source."

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

"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."

"Jenkins optimizes the CI/CD process, enhances automation, and ensures efficiency and management of our build and deployment pipeline."

"Jenkins is a very mature product."

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

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"The only thing I like about Travis CI is that you have a YAML file to define a Travis flow."

Cons

"They need to improve their documentation."

"UI is quite outdated."

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

"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."

"Upgrading and maintaining plugins can be painful, as sometimes upgrading a plugin can break functionality of another plugin that a job is dependent on."

"Better and easy-to-use integration with Docker would be an improvement."

"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."

"In our case, we have several products built using Jenkins. It is quite difficult to navigate into the latest stable build in a given OS."

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"The interface is very basic and not user-friendly; it feels like it was stuck in 2010."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 free version of Jenkins. There are no costs or licensing."

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

"Jenkins is a free solution, it is open source."

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

"It is free."

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

"It is a free product."

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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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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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Travis CI?

I'm not too sure about the pricing of Travis or how the agreement works.

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What needs improvement with Travis CI?

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What is your primary use case for Travis CI?

Travis CI is mainly used to run integration tests as part of the deployment, which I do on Kubernetes. The Travis workflows are integrated with any changes in my code. It will have different jobs, ...

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Overview

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

Easily sync your GitHub projects with Travis CI and you'll be testing your code in minutes. Travis CI for private repositories has plans for every size project. With Travis CI testing your open source project is 100% free.

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