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CI/CD platforms for enterprise buyers

Asked as “CI/CD platform”, and as “continuous integration and delivery tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 50 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
44%
Clear leader
44GitLab CI/CD16GitHub Actions12GitHub28others

44% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01GitLab CI/CD44%9%65endorsed leader
02GitHub Actions16%24%46accepted challenger
03GitHub12%0%15accepted challenger
04Azure DevOps8%9%35accepted challenger
05Jenkins8%51%53criticized challenger
06Buildkite6%17%18accepted challenger
07CloudBees CI2%0%11accepted challenger
08CircleCI2%32%44criticized challenger
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10JetBrains TeamCity0%21%24accepted challenger
09Harness0%0%26accepted challenger
11Octopus Deploy0%0%11accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01GitLab CI/CD44%
02GitHub Actions16%
03GitHub12%
04Azure DevOps8%
05Jenkins8%
06Buildkite6%
07CloudBees CI2%
08CircleCI2%
09Harness0%
10JetBrains TeamCity0%
11Octopus Deploy0%

What they warned about

Two of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Jenkins
51%
27 of 53 labels negative · 12 of 12 models · 8 hard negative
“If you are still on Jenkins, make a migration plan to GitHub, GitLab, or Harness your priority.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt
CircleCI
32%
14 of 44 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“GitHub Actions (hosted) and CircleCI (cloud) — per-minute/credit billing that scales linearly and sometimes super-linearly” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
GitHub Actions
24%
11 of 46 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“What to avoid for this requirement - GitHub Actions (hosted) and CircleCI (cloud) — per-minute/credit billing that scales linearly” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
Atlassian Bamboo
67%
6 of 9 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Why to Avoid: Atlassian announced a firm timeline to phase out its Data Center product line.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

62 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 937 links across 271 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

36 answers · 40 citations · 10 models
32 answers · 38 citations · 11 models
26 answers · 28 citations · 9 models
vendor site · DeployHQ20 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
17 answers · 20 citations · 7 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Augment Code15 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
vendor site · CircleCI14 answers · 24 citations · 7 models
14 answers · 19 citations · 6 models
vendor site · Harness14 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
14 answers · 14 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Semaphore13 answers · 16 citations · 9 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best ci/cd platform”, “ci/cd platform”, “ci/cd platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
GitLab gitlab.com
GitLab CI/CD 44%
44%18690,5004,844603,028 company$884665
GitHub parent site
GitHub Actions 16%, GitHub Enterprise Server 2%
18%1811,500,00031,479
GitHub github.com12%2161,500,00031,47942,019,137$81145
Azure parent site
Azure DevOps 8%
8%162301,00047,904
Jenkins jenkins.io
Jenkins 8%, Jenkins X 0%
8%15133,10022,088182,143
Buildkite buildkite.com6%573,600983,563$4770
CloudBees cloudbees.com
CloudBees CI 2%
2%11903128,700 company$6713
CircleCI circleci.com2%1404,400207133,93224
Harness harness.io0%8360,50055,10086,30261
JetBrains TeamCity jetbrains.com0%341407485,2701202

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 16 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (blog.jetbrains.com, harness.io, octopus.com). The first result for “best ci/cd platform” is reddit.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best CI/CD platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which continuous integration and delivery tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best CI/CD platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a CI/CD platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which CI/CD platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
One alternativeGitLab CI/CD
no first choiceChangedno first choiceagainst: JenkinsCircleCI, GitHub Actions
One alternativeGitLab CI/CD
against: Buildkite
no first choiceagainst: Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity
GPT-5.4 miniGitHub Actions
Three alternativesAWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD
against: Jenkins
GitLab CI/CDChanged
Two alternativesCircleCI, GitHub Actions
against: Jenkins
no first choiceagainst: Atlassian BambooGitLab CI/CDagainst: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkinsno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashGitHub, GitLab CI/CD
Four alternativesArgo CD, Azure DevOps, Buildkite, Harness
against: Jenkins
GitHubChanged
Three alternativesArgo CD, GitLab CI/CD, Harness
against: Jenkins
GitHub, GitLab CI/CD
Three alternativesArgo CD, Azure DevOps, Harness
against: Jenkins / CloudBees Enterprise
Buildkite
Five alternativesArgo CD, GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, JetBrains TeamCity, Tekton
against: Atlassian Bamboo, Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity
GitHub
Two alternativesGitLab CI/CD, Harness
against: AWS CodePipeline, Atlassian Bamboo, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, GCP Cloud Build, Jenkins, Travis CI
Perplexity SonarGitLab CI/CD
Four alternativesAzure Pipelines, CircleCI, Harness, Jenkins
GitLab CI/CDHeld
Four alternativesHarness, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Spinnaker
GitLab CI/CD
Eight alternativesAzure DevOps, CircleCI, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity, Octopus Deploy
GitLab CI/CD, Jenkinsagainst: GitHub Actionsno first choiceagainst: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
Grok 4.20GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
Five alternativesAtlassian, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, CloudBees CI, Jenkins
JenkinsChanged
Three alternativesAzure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
against: CircleCI
no first choiceGitHub Enterprise Server
Three alternativesArgo CD, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
against: Azure Pipelines, CircleCI, GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
Four alternativesBuildkite, CircleCI, Harness, Semaphore
against: Jenkins
against: Atlassian Bamboo, CircleCI, Drone CI, Jenkins, Travis CI
Mistral SmallGitLab CI/CD
Three alternativesBuildkite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CDChanged
Three alternativesCircleCI, Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity
no first choiceGitHub Actions
Two alternativesCloudBees CI, GitLab CI/CD
no first choiceagainst: CircleCI, Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity
DeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, CircleCI, Jenkins
GitLab CI/CDChanged
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Harness, Octopus Deploy
against: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
no first choiceBuildkite
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, CloudBees CI, GitLab CI/CD
against: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
GitLab CI/CD
One alternativeGitHub
against: Jenkins
against: Argo Workflows, Buildbot, Buildkite, CircleCI, Concourse CI, Drone CI, GitLab CI/CD, GoCD, Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Three alternativesBuildkite, CircleCI, Octopus Deploy
GitLab CI/CDChangedno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceagainst: CircleCI, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
Qwen 3.7 FlashGitLab CI/CD
Three alternativesCircleCI, CloudBees CI, GitHub Actions
against: Jenkins
GitHubChanged
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, Harness
against: Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, CircleCI, Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity
against: Atlassian Bamboo
GitLab CI/CD
One alternativeBuildkite
against: GitHub Actions
no first choiceagainst: Azure Pipelines, Buildbot, GitHub Actions, HP ALM, IBM UrbanCode, Jenkins, Travis CI
Kimi K2GitLab CI/CD
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Harness
against: Jenkins
GitLab CI/CDHeld
One alternativeGitHub
GitHub Actions
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab CI/CD, Harness, Jenkins
CloudBees CI, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise Server, Semaphore
against: Buildkite, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
GitHub, GitLab CI/CD
One alternativeAzure DevOps
against: Atlassian Bamboo, Jenkins, Travis CI
GLM 4.7 FlashXGitHub Actions
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab CI/CD, JetBrains TeamCity
against: Jenkins
Azure DevOpsChanged
Two alternativesGitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
no first choiceJenkins
One alternativeGitHub Enterprise Server
against: Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
MiniMax M2.5Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CDagainst: Jenkinsno first choiceChanged
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity
no first choiceBuildkite, GitHub
One alternativeAzure DevOps
against: CircleCI
GitLab CI/CD
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, CircleCI, GitHub
against: Jenkins
against: Jenkins
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:24no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:46yes36 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:22yes1026 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:23yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 07:22yes3321 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:25yes1010 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:45yes1515 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:21yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:31no036 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:32yes1550 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:24yes1990 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:46yes531 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:44no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:30yes56 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:37no016 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:32yes204 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 07:24yes2916 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:24no06 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:38yes1014 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:27yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:37yes2049 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:35yes1538 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:46yes1026 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:35yes516 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:35yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:22yes510 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:35yes2229 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:27yes2013 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 07:29yes2215 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:33yes1312 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:26yes1418 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:33yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:30no036 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:31yes1550 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:35yes2566 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:31yes523 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:34yes1810 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:41yes47 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:39yes1733 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:45yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 07:27yes3119 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:36yes56 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:28yes2223 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:22yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:24yes1059 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:25yes1795 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:41yes2855 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:25yes1658 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:23yes189 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:31no07 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:23no017 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:46yes2012 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 07:21yes1715 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:42no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:29yes1521 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:43yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:45yes542 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:48yes2989 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:34yes1539 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:27no015 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:31yes189 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:43yes59 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:25yes924 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:30yes187 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 07:31yes4217 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:40yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:22yes3033 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:38yes54 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:30yes1236 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:26yes2448 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:24yes2440 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:47yes1961 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild read as AWS CodePipeline
CloudBees read as CloudBees CI
Drone read as Drone CI
GitLab read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab (CE & EE) read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab (Self-Managed / Ultimate) read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab CI read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab CI (cloud) read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab SaaS (Premium/Ultimate) read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab Self-Managed read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab Self-Managed (Ultimate tier) read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab Ultimate read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab Ultimate (GitLab CI/CD) read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab Ultimate / Premium read as GitLab CI/CD
GitLab self-managed read as GitLab CI/CD
Self-Hosted GitLab (CE or Ultimate Self-Managed) read as GitLab CI/CD
Unresolved, counted raw
Concourse CI
GitLab Roles
HP ALM
Octopus
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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