JetBrains TeamCity
Shares rank 12 of 20 CI/CD services by recommenders
People recommend it for reliability, a preference over other CI systems, and a full set of built-in features. Critics find it complex, heavy and costly.
People recommend it for reliability, a preference over other CI systems, and a full set of built-in features. Critics find it complex, heavy and costly.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 60%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, 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
Rarely or never goes down
“I don't remember it ever being down in the last 12 years I have been working here.”
Comment from 26 May 2026 in “GitHub Actions down again today” “We had 0 downtime in 12 months on our TC as a comparison.”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes” Preferred over other CI systems
“I think TeamCity is a better product, and I’d be happy to pay for it tbh!”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability” “The CI system I enjoyed the most was TeamCity”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Complex and clunky to use
“I cannot think of a more clunky and hard to use system”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 in “HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'” “Jenkins and Teamcity are way too complex”
Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “Should QA Exist” Costly, needs paid license
“we’re paying a shit ton of money for this and it’s a pain in the ass”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025” “that needs a license and I can't have that at work apparently”
Comment from 16 Nov 2025 in “IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs” Heavy and bloated
“On the heavy side, but TeamCity is full of goodies.”
Comment from 16 Dec 2025 in “Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions” “all that is so bloated with either Java or Kotlin”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025”
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 | — | — |
| JetBrains TeamCityThis page | 9 | 6 | 60% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
14 of the 18 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the org I was working for ditched jetbrains (including teamcity)”
“all that is so bloated with either Java or Kotlin”
“we’re paying a shit ton of money for this and it’s a pain in the ass”
“I don't remember it ever being down in the last 12 years I have been working here.”
“I cannot think of a more clunky and hard to use system”
“We had 0 downtime in 12 months on our TC as a comparison.”
“There is a free tier for on-prem TeamCity.”
“Jenkins and Teamcity are way too complex”
“I think TeamCity is a better product, and I’d be happy to pay for it tbh!”
“the company I worked at seemed to have made this impossible with some in-house integration”
“The CI system I enjoyed the most was TeamCity”
“No provider provides OOTB caching in my experience”
“On the heavy side, but TeamCity is full of goodies.”
“that needs a license and I can't have that at work apparently”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.