CircleCI vs Jenkins

Both are CI/CD & DevOps automation tools. Here's how their key features, pricing and fit line up, from each vendor's own site.

Feature CircleCI Category leader Jenkins Category leader
PricingFree plan
$15/month
Free
Best for—Engineering teams of any size that want a free, self-hosted CI server and can maintain their own build infrastructure.
Team size2–500+ people2–500+ people
Pipeline as code Not listedYes
Parallel and cached builds Not listedYes
Managed build runners YesNot listed
Deployment automation Not listedNot listed
Secrets management Not listedYes
Approval gates Not listedYes
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