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Migrate your CI/CD from Jenkins to Semaphore
- βοΈ Host your own open-source CI with Semaphore Community Edition
- βοΈCloud (SaaS) version available for those who want a CI that just works
- βοΈ Modernize aging code delivery processes
- βοΈ Accelerate deployment frequency with faster builds
- βοΈ Free up developersβ time for more valuable work
Open-Source CI/CD π£οΈ
Choose between Semaphore Cloud, the autoscaling, managed platform, or Semaphore Community Edition for a self-hosted open-source alternative to Jenkins.
- βοΈ Semaphore Community Edition is an modern open-source, self-hosted alternative to Jenkins
- βοΈ Fully hackable: released under Apache-2 license
- βοΈ Clutter-free UI
- βοΈ Effective pipeline visualizations
Eliminate heavy lifting ππ»ββοΈ
There are entire books written about running Jenkins, and for a reason. Itβs free to use but puts the burden of managing, securing, and scaling CI/CD squarely on your team. With Semaphore, you get:
- βοΈ Easy on boarding
- βοΈ Freedom: auto-scaling, hybrid cloud, or fully self-hosted solution options
- βοΈ Focus on building great products
- βοΈ No maintenance (Semaphore Cloud)
- βοΈ 24/365 support (Semaphore Cloud and Enterprise)
Increased productivity πͺ
The data is in: after switching to Semaphore, an average team of a dozen engineers saves over 500 human hours per month (see whitepaper). The reason? Faster builds, infinite on-demand capacity to test in parallel, and smart pipeline.
- βοΈ Saves +500 human hrs/mo
- βοΈ Faster builds
- βοΈ Capacity to test in parallel
- βοΈ smart pipeline optimization
Standardize CI/CD π¨βπ»
Jenkins adoption is typically fragmented, with each team having their unique instance with challenges that include brittle configuration and outdated plugins. With Semaphore, you get:
- βοΈ CI/CD config as code
- βοΈ Runs on multiple environments
- βοΈ Permission management
βIβve been doing CI/CD for more than 15 years. Semaphore is hands-down the best product Iβve used. An incredibly flexible platform, but without the open-ended bloat of Jenkins. Itβs extremely intuitive and easy to navigate.β
Ben Peterson
Principle Software Engineer

Compare Semaphore vs. Jenkins
- Product type
- SaaS
- Hybrid
- Fully on-premises
- Features
- Standard project set up in a few clicks
- GitHub support
- Bitbucket support
- Gitlab support
- Standardized product
- Graphical pipeline configuration
- Standardized configuration language
- Command-line interface
- Dashboards
- Test reports
- Flaky test detection
- Monorepo support
- Promotions
- Preflight checks
- Parameterized promotions
- Deployment targets
- Ease of Maintenance
- No maintenance required for hardware
- No maintenance required for platform software
- No maintenance required for user-facing product
- Declarative configuration of services
- Hot upgrades without downtime
- Operating system support
- Linux, macOS
- Windows, ARM
- Performance
- Guaranteed desktop-grade performance
- Autoscaling parallelism
- Allocate more CPUs and RAM to complex jobs
- Each job runs in a pristine, isolated environment
- Scalable dependency cache
- Built-in artifacts store
- Built-in Docker registry
- Debugging feedback loop
- Permission management
- Mirror permissions from GitHub
- Role-based access
- Okta / SAML for LDAP integration
- Declarative configuration of permissions
- Security
- Application-level security
- Runtime isolation
- IP allow list
- Audit logs
- ISO 27001 certificate
- SOC 2 certificate
- Support
- Email-based support
- Video call support
- Support SLAs
- Custom solution engineering
- Dedicated customer success manager
- Private Slack channel
- Community support via Discord
βWe eliminated waiting times at the end of each sprint, which were usually very challenging as we deploy a lot of changes on the last day, with Semaphoreβs automatic CI scaling. We are now paying 38% of what we would be paying somewhere else and experience is great.β
Krzysztof Szromek
CTO @ Exlabs

βIt may seem that Jenkins is cheaper than Semaphore. But, after a while, the benefits are very clear: your team becomes more efficient.β
CΓ©sar Luiz dos Anjos
CEO na Asseinfo

Case studies
These teams have switched from Jenkins to Semaphore. Discover their ROI:
βWe were using Jenkins to build the old system, and it was hard to maintain and quite painful. We looked at other hosted CI services, but they were very unreliable. When we found Semaphore, we got our application up and running pretty quickly. We now use it for all projects.β

Lukas Oberhuber
CTO at Simply Business
βSemaphore allows us to build anywhere from two to twenty branches in parallel, each one in a threaded environment. We had thousands of tests that were running for a really long time and with Semaphore we got the build to run in under 20 minutes.β

Artem Lypiy
QA Lead at 500px
βSemaphore 2.0 allows us to build, tag, push, and run Docker images easily. This makes building a powerful pipeline where we can deploy to our Kubernetes cluster fairly easily and quickly.β

Nic Cavigliano
Senior Software Engineer