Comparison

Jenkins 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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Jenkins55
Travis CI59
Score
vioscaleAI score
Jenkins55 / 100high · 75%
Travis CI59 / 100low · 19%
Pricing
Free tier
Jenkins✓
Travis CI✓
Model
Travis CIfreemium
Price level
Jenkinsfree
Travis CIlow
Transparent
Jenkins✓
Travis CI✓
Integrations
Count
Jenkins1
Travis CI11
Security
Disclosure policy
Jenkins✓
Travis CI–
Scorecard
Jenkins6.7
Travis CI–
Soc2
Jenkins✓
Travis CI–
Reliability
Status page
Jenkins✓
Travis CI–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Jenkins0
Travis CI–
Github stars
Jenkins26,648
Travis CI–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Jenkins100
Travis CI–
Release
Cadence days
Jenkins5
Travis CI–
History
Jenkins20 items
Travis CI–
License
Spdx
JenkinsMIT
Travis CI–
Language
Primary
JenkinsJava
Travis CI–
Market
Content
Faq
Jenkins6 items
Travis CI6 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Jenkins

A self-contained Java application that automates building, testing, and deployment workflows. Extensible through hundreds of community-maintained plugins and supports distributing work across multiple machines.

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.

Jenkins

Open source
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
Jenkins✗
Travis CI✓
macOS
Jenkins✓
Travis CI✗
Windows
Jenkins✓
Travis CI✗
Linux
Jenkins✓
Travis CI✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Jenkins✗
Travis CI✓
Self-hosted
Jenkins✓
Travis CI✓
On-premise
Jenkins✗
Travis CI✓

Integrations

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

Jenkins

1 total
  • Subversion
Independently observed

Travis CI

11 total
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • Docker
  • DeepSource
  • Coveralls
  • Coverity Scan
  • SourceClear
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Slack
  • NPM
Independently observed
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Jenkins or Travis CI: which one depends on you

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