Teams that want confidence in every commit choose CircleCI over GitHub Actions
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Validate and ship changes faster
on CircleCI than on GitHub Actions
The most customizable environments of any CI/CD provider.
The fastest route to deploy
with CircleCI’s superior
platform performance
Cut your build times in half with CircleCI using our flexible resource classes and advanced features.
CircleCI is more than a tool,
it’s part of your team
We consistently create
testing and productivity features so you can compete with elite software teams.
CircleCI provides greater visibility than GitHub Actions
into your entire software delivery process
Access workflow status and duration,
detect flaky tests,
and more to improve team productivity.
How does CircleCI compare to GitHub Actions?
Any machine type, any language
The widest choice to customize operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, memory, and images for each job.
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
Powerful workflows
CircleCI lets you customize the environment and conditions for your builds, tests, deployments, and releases.
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
SSH debugging
Securely access any job on CircleCI to debug builds and tests in real-time.
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
Auto-test splitting
Shorten the feedback loop by automatically splitting your tests across parallel instances of the same job.
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
Insights
Get visibility into workflow status, duration, credit consumption, flaky tests, and costs with our Insights dashboard and enjoy more green builds faster.
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
Multiple VCS support
Use CircleCI with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
Integrations for every job
Config you can package, ship, and re-use.
Seamlessly automate your entire CI/CD pipeline with orbs.
Don’t take
our word for it
Ruby on Rails developers choose CircleCI for
continuous integration more than any other CI platform.
CircleCI users love the
flexibility, control, and ease of our platform
“With CircleCI’s flexible caching capabilities we were able to increase concurrency, deliver value faster, and our feedback loop was faster.”
“What makes me most confident in CircleCI is knowing that I have full control over the process, and this platform can scale with whatever my needs are.”
“Our code is our secret sauce. It’s nice knowing that it’s running on our own servers and network that we have full control over.”
