Comparison

Concourse CI vs Travis CI

No leader: the top candidate Travis CI has only 0.19 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Concourse CI53
Travis CI59
Score
vioscaleAI score
Concourse CI53 / 100medium · 50%
Travis CI59 / 100low · 19%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Concourse CI✓
Travis CI✓
Model
Concourse CIopen_source
Travis CIfreemium
Price level
Concourse CIfree
Travis CIlow
Transparent
Concourse CI–
Travis CI✓
Integrations
Count
Concourse CI4
Travis CI11
Adoption
Dependent repos
Concourse CI22
Travis CI–
Github stars
Concourse CI7,916
Travis CI–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Concourse CI55
Travis CI–
Release
Cadence days
Concourse CI20
Travis CI–
History
Concourse CI20 items
Travis CI–
License
Spdx
Concourse CIApache-2.0
Travis CI–
Language
Primary
Concourse CIGo
Travis CI–
Market
Availability
Concourse CI–
Content
Faq
Concourse CI4 items
Travis CI6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for ci/cd tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Hosting
Concourse CISelf-hosted only
Travis CICloud + self-hosted
Self-hosted runners
Concourse CI✓
Travis CI✓
Core
Config-as-code pipelines
Concourse CI✓
Travis CI✓
Matrix / parallel builds
Concourse CI-
Travis CI✓
Build
Container-native builds
Concourse CI✓
Travis CI✓
Performance
Build caching
Concourse CI-
Travis CI✓
Security
Secrets management
Concourse CI-
Travis CI✓
Delivery
Deployment environments & approvals
Concourse CI-
Travis CI✓
Ecosystem
Reusable actions / marketplace
Concourse CI-
Travis CI-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Concourse CI

An open-source Go-based system that executes containerized automation tasks, commonly used for continuous integration and delivery pipelines at any scale.

Independently observed

Travis CI

A continuous integration and deployment service that enables developers to automatically run tests, perform quality checks, and deploy code. It emphasizes simple configuration syntax and fast feedback cycles through parallel builds across multiple programming languages and environments.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Concourse CI

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Travis CI

from $13.75/moSubscriptionFree tier100-day trial

From $13.75/month. Free tier for open-source projects; 100 trial builds for private repositories.

  • Usage Based$13.75/month or $153/year
    • 420,000 Linux build credits per year
    • 80 concurrent jobs
    • Premium VMs available
    • 35,000 credits per month included
    • Unlimited users (billed per user)
  • Unlimited Plan$66+/month or $733/year
    • Unlimited credits for non-premium VMs
    • 1–300 concurrent jobs
    • Unlimited collaborators and repositories
    • Unlimited storage
    • Premium VMs available
  • On-Premise/Private CloudContact sales
    • On-premise or private cloud deployment
    • Perforce and Subversion CI/CD support
    • Premium support options
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Concourse CI✓
Travis CI✓
CLI
Concourse CI✓
Travis CI✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Concourse CI✓
Travis CI✓
Self-hosted
Concourse CI✓
Travis CI✓
On-premise
Concourse CI✗
Travis CI✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (2)
  • GitHub
  • Docker

Concourse CI

4 total - 2 not shared
  • Open Policy Agent
  • Git
Independently observed

Travis CI

11 total - 9 not shared
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • DeepSource
  • Coveralls
  • Coverity Scan
  • SourceClear
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Slack
  • NPM
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Concourse CI or Travis CI: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.