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Semaphore vs Shippable: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Shippable? Shippable is a SaaS platform that lets you easily add Continuous Integration/Deployment to your Github & Bitbucket repos. Shippable is a SaaS platform that lets you easily add Continuous Integration/Deployment to your Github and BitBucket repositories. It is lightweight, super simple to setup, and runs your builds and tests faster than any other service.
Semaphore and Shippable belong to "Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack.
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, Shippable provides the following key features:
- 1-Click Setup
- Docker Containers
- Responsive UI
"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 19 developers like Semaphore, while over 17 developers mention "Free private repositories" as the leading cause for choosing Shippable.
Pipefy, Weroom, and CrowdFlower are some of the popular companies that use Semaphore, whereas Shippable is used by esa, Reviewable, and Algorithmia. Semaphore has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Shippable, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 4 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 Shippable
- Free private repositories18
- Built on docker16
- Continuous deployment14
- Bitbucket integration13
- Fastest continuous integration and deployment12
- Team permissions11
- Flexible Configuration9
- Matrix builds8
- Finer GitHub Scope8
- Intelligent Notifications6
- Awesome experience4
- Easy Setup4
- Fast3
- Custom docker containers1
- 2x faster than other CI/CD platforms1