Head to head
Jenkins vs Semaphore
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
50/100Higher score | 47/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #4 | #7 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 83 | 76 |
| AI Authority | 29 | 22 |
| Web Authority | 21 | 16 |
| Expert Assessment | 60 | 71 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published (no paid plans sold by the Jenkins project) · free tier: Entire product is free — Jenkins core is MIT-licensed and downloadable from jenkins.io/download with no seat or build-minute limits | $0.003 per minute (Ubuntu ARM 2 vCPU); Ubuntu x64 2 vCPU $0.0075/min; self-hosted $0.0025/min · free tier: $15/month in free credits (~2,000 Ubuntu x64 2-vCPU minutes), 20 concurrent jobs by default, artifacts free to 20 GB/month egress and 100 GB/month storage; free support covers only account setup, projects and Git integration |
| Pricing model | Open source, self-hosted (no licence fee); no vendor-sold hosted plans | Usage-based |
| Best for | Platform or DevOps teams that need on-premise or air-gapped builds, heterogeneous toolchains and unusual pipeline shapes SaaS CI cannot express, and can absorb ongoing plugin and controller maintenance in exchange for zero licence cost — Capterra's reviewer base skews enterprise at 45%. | Teams of roughly 5-150 engineers running frequent Linux, ARM or container builds who are unhappy with pipeline wall-clock time, want per-minute billing with no seat tax, and are willing to pay for fast human support or to self-host via Community Edition. |
| Avoid if | You have no platform engineer, your code already lives entirely in GitHub or GitLab where integrated CI is near-zero-ops, you need a vendor with a support SLA and a phone number, or your team is standardised on YAML pipelines with no appetite for Groovy. | Your workflow already lives entirely in GitHub or GitLab, you are macOS/iOS-dominant, you need a contractual response-time SLA on a small budget, you require verified SOC 2 / ISO 27001 evidence up front, or you need flexible refunds and mid-term cancellation. |
| Markets | SMB, Midmarket, Enterprise | SMB, Mid-Market, Agencies, Enterprise (Hybrid/Enterprise editions) |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.