Compare CircleCI, TeamCity, and Microsoft Team Foundation Server
 CircleCI 4.4 Based on 195 reviews Optimized for quick response |  TeamCity 4.2 Based on 50 reviews |  Microsoft Team Foundation Server 4.0 Based on 100 reviews |
Pricing
CircleCI.com $50 per container/month | Enterprise From $1,999 | ‐ | |
CircleCI Enterprise (on-premise) $35 per user with annual contract | Build Agent $299 | ‐ | |
CircleCI for macOS/OS X Growth Plan $249 per month | Professional FREE | ‐ | |
| ‐ | Discounted and complimentary licenses FREE for Open Source projects | ‐ | |
Free Trial | Free Trial | Free Trial |
Ratings
| Meets Requirements | 8.9 (Based on 187 reviews) | 8.9 (Based on 48 reviews) | 8.3 (Based on 100 reviews) |
| Ease of Use | 8.6 (Based on 188 reviews) | 8.2 (Based on 48 reviews) | 7.7 (Based on 100 reviews) |
| Ease of Setup | 8.6 (Based on 89 reviews) | 7.6 (Based on 23 reviews) | 6.7 (Based on 39 reviews) |
| Ease of Admin | 8.4 (Based on 87 reviews) | 8.1 (Based on 20 reviews) | 7.2 (Based on 37 reviews) |
| Quality of Support | 8.3 (Based on 145 reviews) | 8.3 (Based on 33 reviews) | 7.9 (Based on 74 reviews) |
| Ease of Doing Business With | 8.8 (Based on 77 reviews) | 7.9 (Based on 14 reviews) | 7.4 (Based on 34 reviews) |
| Product Direction (% positive) | 8.0 (Based on 187 reviews) | 7.8 (Based on 48 reviews) | 7.6 (Based on 98 reviews) |
Reviewers' Company Size
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) | 51.0% | 32.0% | 18.2% |
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) | 39.7% | 42.0% | 41.4% |
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) | 9.3% | 26.0% | 40.4% |
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software 26.0% | Computer Software 21.1% | Information Technology and Services 26.6% | |
Information Technology and Services 20.7% | Information Technology and Services 15.8% | Computer Software 25.0% | |
Internet 19.0% | Internet 14.0% | Hospital & Health Care 6.5% | |
Financial Services 2.9% | Marketing and Advertising 5.3% | Government Administration 4.0% | |
Broadcast Media 2.5% | Gambling & Casinos 5.3% | Financial Services 4.0% | |
Other 28.9% | Other 38.6% | Other 33.9% |
Reviews
| Most Helpful Favorable Review | Abhas B. Administrator in Information Technology and Services Things that I like arranged sorted by usefulness - 1. * Debug via SSH * - This is pretty much the best feature it has, where you can actively debug your builds when there is a error instead of just failing. As the tests are run on their containers, it... | Mariellen P. User in Computer Software Well defined workflow. Up and running within minutes. The dashboard is easy to setup and configure your own preferences. Supports many languages and plug-ins. | Erin H. User in Information Technology and Services I love TFS. I love the way it tracks bugs, I love the way it manages and tracks deployments to different environments, and I love the way it manages test cases, test plans, requirements, and features, as well as tasks. Our company currently has it set up so... |
| Most Helpful Critical Review | G2 Crowd User in Information Technology and Services Only runs on docker 1.8 (as of about a month ago) that made us move away from circleci. | João M. Administrator in Internet Lacks some plugins, and the interface is a bit old. | G2 Crowd User in Computer Software TFS is extremely non-intuitive and not at all user-friendly. It takes forever to teach new people to use it, even for basic source control purposes. |
