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 10.4% mindshare in BA, compared to Travis CI’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Jenkins users are willing to recommend the solution.

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0% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Jenkins and Travis CI are competing CI/CD tools tailored for different development environments. Jenkins offers more flexibility due to its extensive plugin library, while Travis CI’s ease of integration and straightforward setup give it an advantage for smaller projects or teams.

Features: Jenkins is known for its wide array of plugins, strong community support, and high customizability, making it suitable for varied project needs. Travis CI provides native cloud service integration, automatic testing features, and simplicity, ensuring a smooth user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jenkins grants greater control over deployment through its on-premise installations, though it may require more setup and maintenance. Travis CI, being cloud-based, reduces infrastructure demands and allows faster deployments. Its customer service aligns with its cloud-first model, facilitating rapid deployment strategies.

Pricing and ROI: Jenkins is open-source, minimizing initial setup costs but possibly incurring higher long-term costs due to hosting and maintenance. Travis CI has a clear pricing model based on usage, potentially cost-effective for smaller teams or projects. Jenkins delivers better ROI for large enterprises through customization and scalability, while Travis CI offers economical solutions for smaller teams needing quick deployment without significant infrastructure investments.

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Categories and Ranking

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Travis CI

Ranking in Build Automation

21st

Average Rating

6.0

Reviews Sentiment

3.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Jenkins is 10.4%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Travis CI is 0.7%, down from 1.8% 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

"I am not aware of the available options in the market right now compared to Jenkins, but I am pretty much happy with the service that Jenkins is providing our company."

"Configuration management: It is so easy to configure a Jenkins instance. Migrate configuration to a new environment just by copying XML files and setting up new nodes."

"A lot of support material exists via a single web search of exactly what you're looking for."

"When we have manual tasks, we have to depend on multiple technical teams. With Jenkins, we can bring all the technologies together by the click of a button. We can see results without having to depend on different teams. Jenkins makes life easy for the database and DevOps teams."

"Jenkins's open-based framework is very valuable."

"Jenkins allows us to automate deployment, so I no longer have to do it manually. That's the primary use case. The other advantage of Jenkins is that it's open source. It was free for me to download and install. It's a product that's been in use for many years, so I can find a lot of support online for any issues that I may encounter while configuring anything for a given use case."

"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."

"It offers continuous deployment and continuous testing. It enables us to figure out anything."

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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

"Integrating Jenkins with other tools or solutions has presented some challenges. For instance, when attempting to integrate Jenkins with Kubernetes, I encountered numerous errors, which took several days to resolve. In Jenkins, adding a feature typically involves incorporating the repository feature separately. Jenkins lacks built-in Git repository functionality, necessitating an external Git repository to store Jenkins manifests."

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

"Improvement-wise, I would want the solution's user interface to be changed for the better. In short, the solution can be made more user-friendly."

"Centralized user management would be helpful."

"They need to improve their documentation."

"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."

"Jenkins could improve by adding the ability to edit test automation and make time planning better because it is difficult. It should be easier to do."

"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."

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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

"It is free."

"It is a free product."

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

"It is an open source."

"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."

"Jenkins is a free open-source server."

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

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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

22%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

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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.

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