JFrog Pipeline vs Jenkins comparison

Jenkins and JFrog are both solutions in the Build Automation category. Jenkins is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1, while JFrog is ranked #21. Jenkins holds a 7.3% mindshare in BA, compared to JFrog’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Jenkins users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of JFrog users who would recommend it.

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88% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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

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Categories and Ranking

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

JFrog Pipeline

Ranking in Build Automation

21st

Average Rating

8.0

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 Jenkins is 7.3%, down from 10.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of JFrog Pipeline is 2.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Jenkins	7.3%
JFrog Pipeline	2.1%
Other	90.6%

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Featured Reviews

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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Steve Buttler

DevOps Lead at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Testing against multiple run times, versions, and environments is a plus point

We are using Shippable to automate our CI/CD, so we (and our developers) can focus on our core business. Shippable has tremendously increased our product and features delivery by at least three times. The platform has some amazing features and the integration option makes it very simple to plug…

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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

"I like that you can find a wide range of plugins for Jenkins."

"A lot of support material exists via a single web search of exactly what you're looking for."

"Jenkins is very user-friendly."

"Automation of chores like deployment, frequent manual tasks (like running scripts on test and production systems) reduced the time used and the number of errors made by engineers, freeing them to do meaningful work instead."

"Distributed execution of build and test jobs."

"Has enabled full automation of the company."

"It provides some excellent plug-ins like Repository connector plugin, Sonar Qube plug in and J-Unit plugin."

"Jenkins appeared to be a good alternative to become parallel infrastructure purely dedicated for testing."

More Jenkins pros

"Shippable has tremendously increased our product and features delivery by at least three times."

"The platform has some amazing features and the integration option makes it very simple to plug with any of our favorite tools."

"Testing against multiple run times, versions, and environments is a plus point with the additional pipelines making it more interesting to see what is happening across your development process in a single pane of glass."

Cons

"There are some difficulties when we need to execute the DB script."

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

"In my opinion, there is an issue with the scalability. After Jenkins has big count of jobs, it begins to lose performance and you need to start one more server with a separate Jenkins and migrate some jobs there."

"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 disadvantage of Jenkins is writing Groovy scripts. There are other CI tools where you do not need to write this many scripts to manage and deploy."

"Jenkins could improve by adding the ability to edit test automation and make time planning better because it is difficult. It should be easier to do."

"Developer documentation for plugins, plugin development, integrations: Sometimes it’s tricky to do pretty obvious things."

"They should improve the Version Control tracking system in Jenkins."

More Jenkins cons

"They could work on reducing the number of permissions required while using Bitbucket."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Jenkins is open source and free."

"We are using the free version of Jenkins. There is not a license required to use the solution because it is open-source."

"The pricing for Jenkins is free."

"It could be cheaper because there are many solutions available in the market. We are paying yearly."

"Jenkins is open source."

"Jenkins is a free open-source server."

"The solution is open source."

"Jenkins is an open-source platform."

More Jenkins pricing and cost advice

"The pricing is the cheapest compared to the other platforms out there."

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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

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Performing Arts

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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Questions from the Community

How does Tekton compare with Jenkins?

When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very e...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jenkins?

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?

I do not have any notes for improvement.

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Overview

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

Jenkins

JFrog Pipelines empowers software teams to ship updates faster by automating DevOps processes in a continuously streamlined and secure way across all their teams and tools. Encompassing continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), infrastructure and more, it automates everything from code to production. Pipelines is natively integrated with the JFrog Platform and is available with both cloud (software-as-a-service) and on-prem subscriptions.

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