CircleCI Named a Niche Player in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms
San FranciscoCircleCI, 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.
“I’ve used a variety of CI tools and CircleCI is one of the more robust. I like that it’s not too hard to put a lot of pieces together and it’s also not too difficult to grasp,” said Jon Anderson, Senior Software Engineer at Outreach. “A lot of other systems make the trade-off of being very easy to use, but not easy to do hard things. Or easy to do difficult things but not the easy things. I think CircleCI strikes a really good balance between the two.”
Jon Anderson | Senior Software Engineer at Outreach
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.
“We spent 2024 reinforcing our CI/CD platform as the bedrock for the future of software development," said Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI. "As AI transforms how developers work, we're excited to continue delivering solutions that help teams test, validate, and deploy with the intelligence and speed this new era demands.”
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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.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms, September 22, 2025. ↩
