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CircleCI Reviews in June 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons
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CircleCI is highly regarded for its user-friendly interface, real-time project insights, and seamless integration with various build hosts, making it a standout choice for CI operations. The free tier, offering 30,000 credits and the ability to SSH into builds for quick issue resolution, is appreciated by many users. The ability to automate workflows and ...Read more
CircleCI pros and cons
Provides a user-friendly interface with unique features like insights for workflows, job branches, and commit history.
Free tier includes substantial credits, easy to integrate into projects, and allows SSH to resolve issues directly in the build machine.
Offers easy interface for pipeline creation using YAML files, facilitating automation and progress tracking.
Excellent documentation and ease of integration with other technologies for users transitioning from DevOps/Sysadmin roles.
Audit features are not as robust as other enterprise-grade providers, and some users found the setup to be complex initially.
Issues related to Docker layer cache credits running out fast and slow servers have been reported.
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Scott J
05/23/23
"Solid CI for Apple Platforms"
What do you like best about CircleCI? Good documentation to get us started, everything works as expected, I can trust that issues are mine, not Circle CI's. What do you dislike about CircleCI? Not their fault, but having it built signed apps for Apple Platforms is difficult, but at least there is help out there. What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you? They help us know our apps work and we get a consistent build every time.
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Dennis D
05/23/23
"Great platform for cloud based serverless technology."
What do you like best about CircleCI? I like the ease of use of the platform. I also like able to get ssh shell into the docker image to help troubleshoot pipelines. What do you dislike about CircleCI? Sometimes the documentation can be all over, lacking concrete examples that are up to date with its platform changes. What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you? We are a cloud centric shop so not having to deal with managing jenkins servers is a big plus. Getting builds ...
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Anonymous User
05/23/23
"Using since 2018 in production"
What do you like best about CircleCI? It's easy to get started, almost no effort to start What do you dislike about CircleCI? Can't have total control over the machines Recommendations to others considering CircleCI: Is the best cost bennefict What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you? We have a proper deploy pipeline that has many stages, all detailed in .yml files
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Guillermo H
05/23/23
"Great features and super easy to setup CI product"
What do you like best about CircleCI? Their UI is great. Setting up the CI pipeline, with all the docker features and different options makes it a great option to have in you CI pipeline. We use it in all of our repositories and help us run all of our test with each commit and PR What do you dislike about CircleCI? There's really nothing that comes to mind as something negative about CircleCI. Sometimes the CI setup requires some updating (some old versions stop beign supported, etc), but ...
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Anonymous User
05/23/23
"FROM HELL TO THE SKY"
What do you like best about CircleCI? The easy that is to use orbs and previous work from other teams and companies that had made it public. Also I can connect multiple repos very fast and without any problems What do you dislike about CircleCI? As with any other CI/CD tool, the complexity of testing things during the development or improvement of the pipelines that we have. Is impossible to recreate it What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you? Previously we were ...
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Swapnil P
02/08/23
"Accelerate Your Delivery Cycle with CircleCI's Robust CI/CD Tool"
What do you like best about CircleCI? It is a powerful tool that helps to manage CI/CD pipeline for multiple projects in a single view. It has various options while setup a CI/CD pipeline like approve/disapprove deployment, automate workflow for some branches, different workflows for one project, etc. What do you dislike about CircleCI? I haven't encountered any significant problems, however, occasionally builds fail because of temporary network issues, which can be annoying, especially ...
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Carlos R
12/21/22
"From the commit to the repo"
What do you like best about CircleCI? I like that is free at entry level so you can build your entire pipeline and only when you need more performance you need to pay. What do you dislike about CircleCI? Learning curve, it is difficult at first to integrate everything and make it work. After that you always feel that the effort pay off. What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you? In my case CircleCI builds debian packages from my GitHub repos and push them to my repos ...
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Andrew G
08/18/22
"Awesome tool for Continuous Integration and Deployment"
What do you like best about CircleCI? Circle CI is the most efficient tool for Continous Integration and Deployment. These tools have uncountable cool features: - Easy to set continous integration and deployment jobs - Easy to learn and use - interactive user interface - test analytics and workflow set up - Nice reporting and flawless functionality. Highly recommended tool for DEVOPS and CI CD needs.. What do you dislike about CircleCI? As of now no reason to dislike tool its really awesome ...
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Anonymous User
08/09/22
"Easy to use sotware!"
What do you like best about CircleCI? 1. Very easy to use pipeline software 2. A lot of resources to learn the tool quickly 3. Support for macOS builds is the 'killer feature' What do you dislike about CircleCI? 1. We get a lot of emails when there is a failure in the pipeline. 2. UI can be better 3. A bit expensive What problems is CircleCI solving and how is that benefiting you? 1. Building iOS apps. 2. Faster testing, Quick merge, and releases. 3. Connectivity to the Google cloud ...
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Anonymous User
08/04/22
"Easy to setup CI/CD"
What do you like best about CircleCI? CircleCI integrates directly with version control systems, like Github and Bitbucket, and validates code changes in real time. CircleCi UI is easy to navigate to quickly view projects and pipeline status. What do you dislike about CircleCI? It can be challenging for first-time users to set up, but once you get going easy to navigate. Would be nice to have a GUI to edit the workflows. When a new project is set up, under the insights tab it may not ...
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