Head to head
Semaphore vs TeamCity
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
47/100Higher score | 25/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #7 | #8 |
| Confidence | High confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 76 | — |
| AI Authority | 22 | 10 |
| Web Authority | 16 | 11 |
| Expert Assessment | 71 | 67 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $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 | Not published (vendor Buy page is JavaScript-rendered and served no figures to retrieval) · free tier: Professional: free, no licence key required, 3 build agents, capped at 100 build configurations (archived ones counted) and 10 pipelines; excludes paid-integration Enterprise features such as AI Assistant; community forum support only |
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Licence-based: perpetual for covered versions with ~1-year maintenance period; agent-slot concurrency licensing (Cloud subscription model not verified) |
| Best for | 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. | Engineering organisations that need self-hosted or air-gapped CI/CD with steady, high build volume, where agent-based concurrency licensing caps a bill that per-minute SaaS metering would inflate — and teams already invested in JetBrains tooling. |
| Avoid if | 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. | You want zero build infrastructure to operate, transparent self-serve pricing before speaking to sales, CI fused natively into your code host (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI), or you cannot guarantee uninterrupted maintenance renewal given the downgrade-and-pause behaviour. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-Market, Agencies, Enterprise (Hybrid/Enterprise editions) | SMB, Enterprise, Open Source projects |
| 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.