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Octopus Deploy vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Octopus Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
UrbanCode Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
9th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Octopus Deploy is 2.3%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UrbanCode Deploy is 4.7%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
UrbanCode Deploy4.7%
Octopus Deploy2.3%
Other93.0%
Release Automation
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2006736 - PeerSpot reviewer
MS Apps Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reasonable price, simple to deploy, and does everything we want
We're a DevOps team., and its use case is deployment. That's the only thing it does. Our version is relatively recent Deployment is valuable. It deploys well. You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there…
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DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
A handy interface that includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality
Our company uses the solution for standard, blue-green, and complex deployments. We have 250 users throughout our company.  The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently.  The user interface includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality. It is easy to create component…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The rollback feature has been most valuable; we can write scripts from scratch, and Octopus maintains an independent package for every deployment."
"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"It's a deployment tool; it does one thing, and it does it well."
"This has always been our choice for continuous product development."
"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create a deployment process visually and to see that process executing in real time, step by step, with access to log files and with a click of a button."
"Customer Service: Perfect. IBM has one of the best customer services."
"Automated deployment forces the organization to standardize runtimes, development output and handling of platform provisioning."
"UrbanCode Deploy has really transformed the way we do code deployment, connecting development and operations more closely."
"Repeatable, reliable deployments from one environment to the next."
"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."
"It has automated the deployment of tasks to different environments which we were previously only able to do manually."
 

Cons

"You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there is complexity."
"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to divide variables in YAML file or JSON files."
"Licensing structure - pay per machine deployed to."
"We're running version 4.8.4, which isn't the latest version. This version lacks reporting, which may be improved in the latest version."
"The reporting functionality is limited and it is difficult to retrieve information from the database due to the table structure."
"Sometimes the tool gets hung while running a plan."
"Our organization has also tried other CI/CD tools. There are areas where this tool has been lacking, which is why alternatives are being looked into."
"In our implementation, we created 16 PMR for this product. 15 of them were solved."
"Lack of technical expertise available in the market that forces us to rely solely on IBM Professional Services."
"Full blown support for repositories such a SonaType Nexus would be better than having to deploy an agent to watch particular filesystem paths."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know the exact cost, but it's not exorbitant. It may be a couple of thousand dollars a year or something like that. I'm not sure, but it's reasonable. We get value for money out of it."
"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."
"The licensing fees for this solution are based on the number of servers that are being deployed and the number of agents that you have."
"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Retailer
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Media Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
26%
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Insurance Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise22
 

Also Known As

No data available
uDeploy
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Microsoft, NASA, Cisco, Domain, HP, Symantec, 3M, Philips
As policy, IBM does not release customer names on non-IBM web sites.  However, public DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy case studies can be found here. IBM's UrbanCode Deploy customers span Small-Medium Businesses to Fortune 500 companies across all industries worldwide.
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