Head to head
TeamCity vs Jenkins
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
25/100 | 50/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #4 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | — | 83 |
| AI Authority | 10 | 29 |
| Web Authority | 11 | 21 |
| Expert Assessment | 67 | 60 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Pricing model | Licence-based: perpetual for covered versions with ~1-year maintenance period; agent-slot concurrency licensing (Cloud subscription model not verified) | Open source, self-hosted (no licence fee); no vendor-sold hosted plans |
| 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. | 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%. |
| 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 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. |
| Markets | SMB, Enterprise, Open Source projects | SMB, Midmarket, Enterprise |
| 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.