Bamboo vs Digital.ai Release comparison

Atlassian and Digital.ai are both solutions in the Build Automation category. Atlassian is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while Digital.ai is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.0. Atlassian holds a 4.3% mindshare in BA, compared to Digital.ai’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 78% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Digital.ai users who would recommend it.

Bamboo

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Digital.ai Release

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Bamboo and Digital.ai Release compete in the software release management domain. Based on data, Bamboo is preferred for pricing and support, whereas Digital.ai Release excels in feature set quality.

Features: Bamboo integrates smoothly with Atlassian products, offers continuous delivery automation, and supports parallel builds for agile setups. Digital.ai Release excels with complex release pipeline support, comprehensive audit trails, and scalable architecture for large-scale deployments.

Room for Improvement: Bamboo could enhance advanced customizability, audit trail robustness, and expand capabilities for large enterprise environments. Digital.ai Release may improve its initial deployment ease, reduce costs for smaller teams, and optimize community support resources.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bamboo benefits teams using Atlassian, allowing quick deployment and reliance on community support. Digital.ai Release offers extensive documentation and a dedicated support team to guide enterprise implementations.

Pricing and ROI: Bamboo is budget-friendly with a straightforward pricing model, suitable for small to medium businesses for quick ROI. Digital.ai Release demands higher initial investment but realizes significant ROI through efficiency and operational risk reduction in complex environments.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bamboo

Ranking in Build Automation

11th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Digital.ai Release

Ranking in Build Automation

15th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Release Automation (10th), DevSecOps (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Bamboo is 4.3%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Digital.ai Release is 2.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Bamboo	4.3%
Digital.ai Release	2.0%
Other	93.7%

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Christo Louw

Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Automation has streamlined build and deployment workflows and provides clear project reporting

Regarding improvements for Bamboo, I can't think of anything right now. Bamboo is serving the purpose that we needed it for. I would say pipelines for model building could be an area of focus. However, I can't really comment on that because I haven't looked at Bamboo to assist with machine learning pipelines. If they haven't focused on building MLOps pipelines, that's definitely an area where they could assist businesses. I haven't looked at what Bamboo offers for MLOps, so it's possible that they've already built in features. Machine learning and AI are in big demand at the moment. If they haven't focused too much on MLOps, that's probably where they can improve.

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Jeanne-Mari Chandran

Software Configuration Specialist at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Experience seamless project management and integration with robust tools

The features I find most valuable in Digital.ai Release are the integration with MS Teams, because we have MS Teams channels that publish or push notifications to that. When we start deployments, it sends a notification to the people that we are doing a deployment to their environment. It notifies them when the deployment is started, completed, or if attention is required. I also appreciate the fact that it has plugins for Bamboo and I use lots of Gradle and JSON scripts, and we do SQL upgrades as well, triggering Flyway scripts via Bamboo, along with the integration with XLD and Jira; it's all Atlassian software. Regarding environment management capabilities, Digital.ai Release is mostly useful for me, as it is more application related and that is managed via my XLD dictionary. We have one artifact that is environment agnostic, which has placeholders that correspond to my XLD keys and values, and at deployment time, it substitutes the placeholders with those environment specific values. We don't need to make a specific deployment artifact for dev, test, or production; it is all the same artifact using environment variables, ensuring what we take to production is what was tested.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools."

"The main benefits Bamboo provides for me and my team are the automation to pick up code changes and automate the deployments, building images."

"The most useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor."

"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."

"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."

"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."

"The tool is useful for continuous deployment."

"We use Bamboo to automate all our test builds and deployments. It integrates with tools like the ReportPortal to help us check and evaluate processes. When we initiate commands, it automatically checks for scaling issues or failures related to new code. Based on these evaluations, it provides reports in the ReportPortal, helping us decide whether to implement changes."

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"The time is also reduced because the manual work has tremendously decreased. We just have to click one button, and it will create everything for us."

"Overall, I would give Digital.ai Release a rating of nine out of ten; there's always room for improvement, but it's really good."

"The most valuable feature of Digital.ai Release is its ability to communicate with various deployment systems, such as XLD and batch deployments, as well as integrate with tools, such as Flyway and Bamboo. We use Bamboo as our build orchestrator, and Digital.ai Release also integrates with Jira, another Atlassian solution. These capabilities make it a powerful tool for managing workflow, test automation, and other processes."

"The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that."

"The solution can apply one template across multiple applications."

Cons

"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."

"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."

"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."

"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."

"One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area."

"From my personal experience regarding scalability and the ability to scale, I find that sometimes the agents run out of resources and then it takes quite a while to get additional infrastructure."

"Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added."

"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."

More Bamboo cons

"Currently, we put artifact details manually. What we could improve, in our case, is the deployment instruction base. Developers input all the information, including which artifact and where it needs to be deployed. What Digital.ai could do is automatically go to the deployment instruction page, take those artifact details, and implement them."

"Digital.ai Release could improve by having a better plugin that works with Guardian that we use for mainframe migrations. If there could be an interface or plugin for Guardian that would be beneficial."

"The backfill could be improved, we could automate that. Right now it's subjective — it's up to the lead developer's memory to remember to backfill."

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

"I would like to improve Digital.ai Release by exploring its cloud capabilities as we are currently in the middle of migrating to the cloud, but I actually have no idea what Digital.ai's cloud capabilities are."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The server products for small teams used to offer excellent pricing. However, Atlassian has since changed the offering and the pricing is more expensive. I do still think the solution offers good value for money."

"I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

"If Bamboo could provide more flexibility on pricing, that would help. On the agent side, if you want to increase the number of agents it should be less expensive. If they can provide some better pricing model, it will help, whether we are going to use it or are already using it."

"The solution's license includes all features."

"Overall, the price is just too high; especially considering we're in the middle of a pandemic."

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May 27, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Government

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

12%

Insurance Company

12%

Healthcare Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	9

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Bamboo?

Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bamboo?

I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five.

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What needs improvement with Bamboo?

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What do you like most about Digital.ai Release ?

The time is also reduced because the manual work has tremendously decreased. We just have to click one button, and it will create everything for us.

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What needs improvement with Digital.ai Release ?

Based on my experience, I would like to improve Digital.ai Release by exploring its cloud capabilities as we are currently in the middle of migrating to the cloud, but I actually have no idea what ...

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What is your primary use case for Digital.ai Release ?

My use case for Digital.ai Release is that I work for an insurance company on a very big project that develops multiple different pieces of software. We use Digital.ai Release to move our software ...

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Overview

Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It works great alongside JIRA and Stash providing a fully traceable deployment pipeline.

Atlassian

Automate, orchestrate, and gain visibility into your release pipelines at scale using Digital.ai Release, a release management tool that is designed for enterprises. Control and track releases, standardize processes, and bake compliance and security into your software release pipelines.

Digital.ai

Sample Customers

Neocleus, MuleSoft, Interspire

3M, GE, John Deere, Deutsche Telekom, Cable & Wireless, Xerox, and Société Générale, Liberty Mutual, EA, Rabobank

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