Cirrus CI
Ranked 11 of 20 CI/CD services by recommenders
Developers liked its Docker support, log viewer, and free hosting for open source, and rated it above GitHub Actions. Critics object to the short notice of its shutdown.
Developers liked its Docker support, log viewer, and free hosting for open source, and rated it above GitHub Actions. Critics object to the short notice of its shutdown.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Better than GitHub Actions
“Cirrus CI was in my opinion much better than Github Actions”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” “your offering was much better than Github Actions”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to Join OpenAI” “Cirrus CI is (was?) quite a bit better than them”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” Solid, near-perfect CI service
“Cirrus Labs has been doing solid work in mobile CI/CD infrastructure”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” “CirrusCI was very close to a perfect CI system”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” “Cirrus CI is the best Ci solution I have used”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to Join OpenAI” Better UX and more platforms
“Better UX than their competitors and support for many different images.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” “Much better UX for viewing logs, more supported platforms.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” Free CI and support for open source
“Cirrus has been providing quite decent CI facilities, for free.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” “Cirrus gave a ton of support for years to open source projects.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Abrupt shutdown with short notice
“That is a bit sudden, it would be great if it was possible to get an extra month for migration.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” “a CI company that shuts down CI services with such short notice?”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” “You're kicking your customers to the curb.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” Seen as not caring about customers
“I don’t think they care about their customers at all”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” “You're kicking your customers to the curb.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026”
Other CI/CD services people recommend
The four most recommended other CI/CD services, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Actions | 234 | 741 | 24% | 12 | 2 yrs21 owners | — |
| Jenkins | 67 | 57 | 54% | 9 | — | — |
| GitLab CI | 56 | 25 | 69% | 11 | 3 yrs9 owners | Approved |
| Dagger | 43 | 23 | 65% | 10 | — | — |
| Cirrus CIThis page | 10 | 6 | 63% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Ability to trivially use custom VM images was quite nice.”
“Cirrus CI is (was?) quite a bit better than them”
“FreeBSD CI testing is the part I’ll miss the most”
“It gives a better docker based experience and it also has measurements of memory and cpu usage to help you dimension things quickly.”
“That is a bit sudden, it would be great if it was possible to get an extra month for migration.”
“Much better UX for viewing logs, more supported platforms.”
“It looks pretty ordinary to me”
“Cirrus Labs has been doing solid work in mobile CI/CD infrastructure”
“Cirrus CI was in my opinion much better than Github Actions”
“Better UX than their competitors and support for many different images.”
“CirrusCI was very close to a perfect CI system”
“Cirrus gave a ton of support for years to open source projects.”
“You're kicking your customers to the curb.”
“Cirrus CI was on a downhill in terms of users and revenue for years now.”
“I don’t think they care about their customers at all”
“a CI company that shuts down CI services with such short notice?”
“Cirrus has been providing quite decent CI facilities, for free.”
“the one cool CI thing with first-class Podman support”
“your offering was much better than Github Actions”
“Cirrus CI is the best Ci solution I have used”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.