Incredibuild vs Jenkins comparison

IncrediBuild and Jenkins are both solutions in the Build Automation category. IncrediBuild is ranked #24, while Jenkins is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1. IncrediBuild holds a 1.4% mindshare in BA, compared to Jenkins’s 7.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IncrediBuild users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Jenkins users who would recommend it.

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Incredibuild and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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

Categories and Ranking

Incredibuild

Ranking in Build Automation

24th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Incredibuild is 1.4%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 7.3%, down from 10.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Jenkins	7.3%
Incredibuild	1.4%
Other	91.3%

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Zvika Moskovitz

DevOps Team Leader at Elbit Systems Ltd

Saves time for developers, which saves money for the company

We are using the Incredibuild agent to run multiple processes on all available cores. This is the improvement that we did. Instead of the machine's core doing task after task, it is now running on multiple machines. In my working environment, it is saving time for all our developers in regards to the time consumption of the builds. My team has four people who manage and interact with Incredibuild as a product.

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Mahdi Mallaki

Senior Devops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Has a community of plugin providers but needs improvement in Kubernetes integration

Integrating Jenkins with other tools or solutions has presented some challenges. For instance, when attempting to integrate Jenkins with Kubernetes, I encountered numerous errors, which took several days to resolve. In Jenkins, adding a feature typically involves incorporating the repository feature separately. Jenkins lacks built-in Git repository functionality, necessitating an external Git repository to store Jenkins manifests. In contrast, GitLab offers an integrated Git repository and pipeline runner, streamlining the process. One improvement for Jenkins could be integrating a Git server, simplifying the management of CI/CD pipelines. Currently, with Jenkins, modifying pipeline manifests requires navigating to a separate Git repository. In GitLab, however, manifest changes can be made directly within the repository.

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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

"It is saving time for developers, which is saving money for the company."

"Jenkins is very stable."

"Having builds and test tasks triggered on commit helps not to break the product."

"It is very useful for us to be able to collect and manage automatic processing pipelines."

"There are a large number of plugins available for integration with third party systems."

"We are using the open-source version and there is a lot of plugins and features that are available and it works on agents for free. In other solutions, it will cost extra to use them with the agent."

"GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins."

"I can install Jenkins for integration from multiple developers and automate application delivery, staging, and production environments."

"Jenkins is very easy to use."

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Cons

"Stability could be improved. I don't know the reason for the instability because there are no logs that help me to understand the problem."

"They need to improve their documentation."

"Adding support for OIDC and internal user databases simultaneously would improve Jenkins."

"The user interface could be updated a little."

"We need more licensed product integrations."

"Tasks such as deployment, cloning, database switchover, and all other database missions and tasks are being done through Jenkins. If a job does not go through, at times the error message does not clearly indicate what caused the failure. I have to escalate it to the Jenkins DevOps team just to see what caused the failure. If the error message is clear, then I wouldn't have to escalate the issue to different teams."

"The product should provide more visualization as to how many pipelines are performing and how many builds are happening. It should also integrate with Kubernetes and OpenShift."

"We sometimes face challenges during version upgrades, such as failures when migrating Kubernetes versions."

"A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its pricing and licensing are annoying. Every year, I need to renew. If I miss the deadline date, all my processes will stop working. So, I would prefer that I wouldn't need to renew every year, instead have another solution for it. Or, if we could have an enterprise license agreement with the company, then the development team wouldn't need to spend time renewing licenses."

"The solution is open source."

"The solution is one of the lowest costs compared to competitors."

"This is an open-source solution for the basic features. However, if an organization wishes to include specific functionality, outside of the basic package, there are extra costs involved."

"The open-source version is free, but small companies would not be able to afford the cloud-based version."

"Jenkins is open source."

"I used the free OSS version all the time. It was enough for all my needs."

"The tool is open-source."

"Jenkins is open source and free."

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it_user184734

Systems Administrator at Facebook

Jan 22, 2015

I generally find TeamCity a lot more intuitive than Jenkins.

Moving to TeamCity from Jenkins At work, we’re slowly migrating from Jenkins to TeamCity in the hope of ending some of our recurring problems with continuous integration. My use of Jenkins prior to this job has been almost strictly on a personal basis, although I pretty much only use Travis…

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	57

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Jenkins is used in many companies to save money, especially within R&D divisions, by avoiding the expenses of proprietary tools.

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What needs improvement with Jenkins?

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Overview

Incredibuild, the world’s leading platform for development acceleration, lets you deliver faster developer cycles and shorten your time-top market with more compute power and lower costs on prem and the cloud.

Incredibuild enables every machine to use hundreds of cores to accelerate time-consuming software development by using idle CPUs in network or bursting to the cloud. Use the full potential of your network to raise product quality, iterate more frequently, and increase dev productivity.

Most importantly, Incredibuild works out of the box, no need to change any of your existing toolchain, processes, or code.

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Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

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Over 2,000 companies worldwide across industries inluding Epic Games, Microsoft, Playstation, Nintendo, Samsung, GM, Intel, CitiGroup, Qualcomm, Boeing, Motorola, Qt, and more accelerate their development and enhance their devs’ productivity with Incredibuild.

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