CircleCI Named a Niche Player in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms

San Francisco CircleCI, a leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced it has been recognized as a Niche Player in the Gartner® 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms. ¹ This research evaluates DevOps platform vendors to help leaders make buying decisions. We believe the recognition as a Niche player validates the CircleCI as the software delivery engine for teams who want to ship at AI speed, confidently. CircleCI is reinventing CI/CD for the AI era by pioneering autonomous validation that anticipates issues, optimizes performance, and ensures production-grade quality without sacrificing velocity.

In the age of AI, code is written at unprecedented speed and introduces unrelenting complexity. Therefore, high-performing engineering teams need reliable, scalable CI/CD infrastructure that delivers speed without compromising quality. CircleCI has a 5 out of 5 based on 16 ratings submitted for the Continuous Integration feature on Gartner Peer Insights™ as of September 23, 2025.² It also has a 4.9 out of 5 based on 12 ratings submitted for the CD/Release Orchestration feature on Gartner Peer Insights™ as of September 23, 2025.³ As a leading CI/CD platform, CircleCI is specialized in delivering the core capabilities that directly impact development velocity and deployment confidence.

CircleCI’s leading advantages include 35 resource classes for precise workload optimization, SSH debugging for rapid troubleshooting, intelligent test splitting that reduces test time by up to 70%, cross-repository orchestration that other platforms struggle with, and AI-powered error resolution. These capabilities enable elite teams to ship higher quality code faster, regardless of application complexity or scale.

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About CircleCI

CircleCI is a leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, enabling more than two million global users on elite engineering teams like Meta, Slack, and Okta to rapidly build, test, deploy, and monitor software they can trust. Through powerful pipeline automation, CircleCI manages limitless complexity at scale through unmatched flexibility and reliability, reducing the time from build to delivery by 3x the industry average. For more information about CircleCI, visit www.circleci.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.