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Microsoft Azure DevOps vs Octopus Deploy comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Ranking in Release Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
139
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (2nd), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (1st)
Octopus Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure DevOps is 25.0%, down from 33.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Octopus Deploy is 2.2%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure DevOps25.0%
Octopus Deploy2.2%
Other72.8%
Release Automation
 

Featured Reviews

Bharadwaj Deepak Mohapatra - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at ENTERPRISE SYSTEM SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Have built reliable end-to-end pipelines and streamlined cloud provisioning through consistent collaboration practices
I am currently working with open-source tools such as Jenkins for my main CI/CD pipeline, and for enterprise clients, I am using Microsoft Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline. For other clients, I have also implemented CI/CD YAML pipelines through GitLab CI/CD workflow and GitHub Actions. I am creating the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline from development to deployment and monitoring all of this. Azure Boards is easier than Jira for my understanding because there are very easy points to manage the Agile methodology which we work on. Because it is a GUI, sometimes the process may take a few minutes more than the CLI process since the backend is running the exact CLI, but we are commanding through the GUI. There is definitely a time lag, but it is more secure. Microsoft Azure DevOps pipelines work very seamlessly rather than other CI/CD pipelines, as of my understanding. The downside is that the process may take more time when deploying some clusters, Kubernetes, Azure AKS service, or some vast microservice architecture deployments. There may be a little bit of lag I feel, though I cannot tell very strictly that this is a disadvantage, but sometimes it takes a little more time than other cloud infrastructures. All the major things are done by GUI, which is somewhat a little slow. However, if considering automations, process, monitoring, and provisioning, then it is the best cloud service across all the other service providers. Our implementation is a hybrid cloud. Microsoft Azure DevOps is definitely easily scalable. I have worked on many Kubernetes infrastructures and microservice deployments, and I have seen that replication is very good because it is very easy. The replication process is very straightforward. I definitely advocate for using less code because it is very time-consuming. If using GCP or Amazon Web Service, there is more interaction related to work over the CLI process. In terms of Microsoft Azure DevOps, there are many things done by the GUI, which is the best part.
reviewer2006736 - PeerSpot reviewer
MS Apps Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reasonable price, simple to deploy, and does everything we want
We're a DevOps team., and its use case is deployment. That's the only thing it does. Our version is relatively recent Deployment is valuable. It deploys well. You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Broadly speaking, we use the product for .NET websites, APIs, data integration, migration, data analysis, job orders, and workflows."
"I really like the Microsoft DevOps survey."
"Their technical support is pretty good."
"We use this solution for continuous integration, strategic analysis, and to create and deploy virtual machines, and soon there will be more than 200 of us using this solution."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps integrates well with other components, such as Synapse, which is a data warehouse tool of Azure. It is a framework platform for BI and integrated with other tools, such as Power BI."
"It allows us to prioritize an organization-wide backlog, which has really reduced our delivery time for complex projects."
"It is a really easy way to define all of the features that you need to deliver. You can link those features to epics and break them down into user stories. You can also assign the user stories into sprints for doing your product improvement planning."
"It's very user-friendly, and the documentation is good. The most valuable feature is backlog item creation, where we pick features and other things. The burndown chart created for projects to be maintained by the development teams is also useful."
"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"The rollback feature has been most valuable; we can write scripts from scratch, and Octopus maintains an independent package for every deployment."
"It's a deployment tool; it does one thing, and it does it well."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"This has always been our choice for continuous product development."
 

Cons

"The UI, the user experience, is challenging for newcomers."
"All of the tests of the applications are done on the mobile or web interface and it could be improved."
"Better integration with the Linux operating system would be an improvement for this solution."
"I would like to see DevOps have the ability to give us something with a compatibility or traceability matrix."
"Azure has not yet advanced to the performance level of the other major competitors and is missing integration with important technologies."
"I would like to see improvement in the metrics and the dependencies."
"The ability to extend work items was more flexible than it is now. Talking version control, one of our customers had some issues because they found it very difficult to manage more than 1000 repositories for one team project."
"I would give it a higher rating, but there are a couple of things that tick me off."
"You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there is complexity."
"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to divide variables in YAML file or JSON files."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We do not pay licenses for this solution."
"For Microsoft, it can get expensive when you need heavy-duty machines."
"The reason that customers are going to the cloud is that it provides the ability to reduce the license cost. For example, when purchasing Office 365 it is bundled with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and many other applications. In the past, purchasing a license was approximately $600. Today it's only $35 or $45 per customer, per client, or per user, plus the storage. It's less expensive for companies today, to use something, such as Microsoft Azure DevOps, and provide the software to all the employees needing a license. It's better to go with the cloud than just to buy the licenses by themselves."
"The solution costs $5 or $10 per user, per month."
"I don't know the pricing of DevOps. It would be much cheaper than ALM because ALM came out as a software product initially. Now they are moving into a cloud and subscription model. In that case, Microsoft is coming from Azure and the cloud and DevOps and software as a service, so it would be much cheaper, but the catch would be that they are trying to get money on all the sides, like an operating system, Microsoft Office, or Microsoft Azure DevOps."
"The cost is quite affordable."
"I am not aware of any licensing subscriptions for the solution."
"We pay a monthly license for Microsoft Azure DevOps."
"I don't know the exact cost, but it's not exorbitant. It may be a couple of thousand dollars a year or something like that. I'm not sure, but it's reasonable. We get value for money out of it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Retailer
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business44
Midsize Enterprise28
Large Enterprise70
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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...
Which is better - TFS or Azure DevOps?
TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very fri...
Microsoft Azure DevOps: what is your experience regarding pricing and costs ?
I rate Microsoft Azure DevOps price as a one, which means it is a good value.
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Also Known As

Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services, MS Azure DevOps
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Sample Customers

Alaska Airlines, Iberia Airlines, Columbia, Skype
Microsoft, NASA, Cisco, Domain, HP, Symantec, 3M, Philips
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