Bitbucket vs CircleCI
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| Bitbucket | CircleCI | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Code and CI/CD, powered by AI and the Atlassian platform bitbucket.org | CircleCI keeps your code tested, trusted, and ready to ship 24/7 with minimal human oversight. circleci.com |
| Starting at | Not observed | $15 Performance / month free plan listed |
| Platforms | Not observed | Arm, Docker, Linux, Windows, macOS, self hosted runners circleci.com |
| Deployment | cloud, self-managed atlassian.com | Cloud, Runner (hybrid), Server (on-prem) circleci.com |
| Integrations | Confluence, Jira, Opsgenie, Slack, SonarCloud bitbucket.org | Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, Heroku, GitHub CLI circleci.com |
| Compliance | Not observed | SOC 2 support.circleci.com |
| Free plan | Yes atlassian.com | Yes circleci.com |
| Plans | Bitbucket Cloud Premium bitbucket.org | Free, Performance, Scale, Premium circleci.com |
| Pricing basis | per user / month atlassian.com | Credits are the currency of CircleCI. circleci.com |
| Customers (their claim) | 15 million developers build on Bitbucket bitbucket.org | Not observed |
Where they differ
- CircleCI claims SOC 2 on its own pages; Bitbucket’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
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