Head to head
TeamCity vs CircleCI
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
25/100 | 58/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #3 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | — | 79 |
| AI Authority | 10 | 64 |
| Web Authority | 11 | 18 |
| Expert Assessment | 67 | 57 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | 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 | From $15/month (Performance) · free tier: $0/month, no credit card: 30,000 credits/month (page also claims up to 6,000 build minutes), up to 5 active users, 1 GB network, 2 GB storage, 30x concurrency (macOS concurrency 1), Docker layer caching, private orbs, 5 self-hosted runner tasks; credits expire monthly with no rollover |
| Pricing model | Licence-based: perpetual for covered versions with ~1-year maintenance period; agent-slot concurrency licensing (Cloud subscription model not verified) | Credit-based (usage-based, prepaid credits) |
| Best for | 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. | Teams needing heterogeneous compute (Linux + Arm + Windows + macOS or GPU jobs) in one pipeline, with bursty build volume they can absorb via high concurrency, plus open-source projects and qualifying startups exploiting the large free credit allowances. |
| Avoid if | 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. | You need SSO or policy-as-code without an annual sales contract, require a predictable flat monthly bill and cannot accept auto-refill plus forfeiture-on-cancellation, are already deep in a GitHub-native workflow, or want minimal YAML authoring. |
| Markets | SMB, Enterprise, Open Source projects | Startup, 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.