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Semaphore vs TeamCity: What are the differences?
Semaphore: The continuous integration and delivery platform powering the world’s best engineering teams. Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams; TeamCity: TeamCity is an ultimate Continuous Integration tool for professionals. TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.
Semaphore and TeamCity can be categorized as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Semaphore are:
- Docker, Kubernetes, iOS support & 100+ preinstalled Tools
- Customizable Continuous Delivery Pipelines
- Customizable Stages, Parallel Execution and Control Flow Switches
On the other hand, TeamCity provides the following key features:
- Automate code analyzing, compiling, and testing processes, with having instant feedback on build progress, problems, and test failures, all in a simple, intuitive web-interface
- Simplified setup: create projects from just a VCS repository URL
- Run multiple builds and tests under different configurations and platforms simultaneously
"Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers consider Semaphore over the competitors, whereas "Easy to configure" was stated as the key factor in picking TeamCity.
According to the StackShare community, TeamCity has a broader approval, being mentioned in 171 company stacks & 51 developers stacks; compared to Semaphore, which is listed in 40 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.
Pros of Semaphore
- Easy setup20
- Fast builds15
- Free for private github repos14
- Great customer support8
- Free for open source6
- Organizations ready5
- Slack integration4
- SSH debug access2
- GitHub Integration2
- Easy to use1
- Continuous Deployment1
- Pipeline builder GUI1
- BitBucket integration1
- Docker support1
- Simple UI1
- Parallelism1
Pros of TeamCity
- Easy to configure61
- Reliable and high-quality37
- User friendly32
- On premise32
- Github integration32
- Great UI18
- Smart16
- Free for open source12
- Can run jobs in parallel12
- Crossplatform8
- Chain dependencies5
- Fully-functional out of the box5
- Great support by jetbrains4
- REST API4
- Projects hierarchy4
- 100+ plugins4
- Personal notifications3
- Free for small teams3
- Build templates3
- Per-project permissions3
- Upload build artifacts2
- Smart build failure analysis and tracking2
- Ide plugins2
- GitLab integration2
- Artifact dependencies2
- Official reliable support2
- Build progress messages promoting from running process2
- Repository-stored, full settings dsl with ide support1
- Built-in artifacts repository1
- Powerful build chains / pipelines1
- TeamCity Professional is FREE1
- High-Availability0
- Hosted internally0
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Cons of Semaphore
Cons of TeamCity
- High costs for more than three build agents3
- Proprietary2
- User-friendly2
- User friendly2