Outgrow Bitbucket Pipelines. Model any DevOps workflow with
Semaphore.

With Semaphore, you get:
🔷 Built-in metrics to improve delivery
🔷 Visual Workflow Builder & YAML flexibility
🔷 CI/CD built by and for engineers — no vendor lock-in

Bitbucket vs. Semaphore: key differences

Bitbucket pain 😖	Semaphore gain 🚀
🐢 Limited parallelism and slower builds	⚡ High-performance builds with auto-scaling
🔄 Basic workflow configurations	🛠️ Flexible, visual pipeline editor
🔒 Limited secret management	🔐 Advanced secrets handling with fine-grained control
📉 Minimal insights and metrics	📊 Built-in CI/CD performance metrics
🧩 Limited integrations and extensibility	🔌 Rich ecosystem with extensive integrations

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Why teams choose Semaphore over Bitbucket

Model any DevOps workflow 🔄

Semaphore gives teams the flexibility to mirror any DevOps process with ease — from simple pipelines to complex delivery flows.

✔️ Chain pipelines with dependencies
✔️ Run jobs in parallel
✔️ Model workflows at any scale

📌 Build without friction.

“Semaphore 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.”

Artem Lypiy

QA Lead

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Clarity at every step 📘

Semaphore’s Visual Workflow Builder simplifies pipeline configuration, allowing you to design workflows through an intuitive UI or YAML files. Combined with clear, concise documentation, it ensures a smooth setup process.

✔️ Visual pipeline builder for intuitive setup
✔️ YAML + UI flexibility
✔️ Expert-written documentation

📌 See what matters.

“Semaphore CI makes it incredibly easy to get started. With zero prior experience on the platform, I was able to spin up a working pipeline to build and test my service in no time. Their “Getting Started” flow is one of the best I’ve seen — it’s clear, structured, and genuinely helps you get up to speed fast.”

Christopher Smit

Software Engineer

Track and improve performance 📊

Semaphore comes with built-in metrics so your team can continuously improve its CI/CD.

✔️ Dashboards with key metrics
✔️ Track build speed and pass rate
✔️ Spot bottlenecks and flaky tests

📌 Turn data into delivery improvements.

“Semaphore is a great product, and its focus on performance brings more productivity to our workflow. It has a ton of options for you to build your pipeline. Study the documentation, which is very detailed and covers all the features.”

Philip Sampaio Silva

Senior Software Engineer at Magnetis

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🔍 Compare Semaphore Cloud and Community Edition 🆚 Bitbucket

👀 at a glance 👇

Semaphore Cloud

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Saas

SaaS subscription model for cloud CI/CD, with pay-as-you-go and per-seat Enterprise plans.

Semaphore Community Edition

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⭐⭐⭐

Open source

Open-Source and free to use. Must be installed on your hardware or cloud. Licensed under Apache 2 model.

Bitbucket Cloud

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⭐⭐⭐

Bitbucket native

Bitbucket Pipelines is easy to set up and integrates with Jira, but supports only Linux and works within the Bitbucket ecosystem.

📋 Full feature comparison

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Features
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

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  ⓘAuthenticate with Git provider, select repository, import repository as project
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  ⓘWorkflow Builder: point-and-click interface to create and edit pipelines
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  ⓘDeclarative YAML configuration for all features
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  ⓘCLI can manage projects and do everything the UI can.
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  ⓘTrack perfromance and project health with dashboards. Define dashboards to track development metrics.
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  ⓘProvides a unified dashboard for failures across all runs in a project
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  ⓘDetects flaky tests and provides interface to track and manage them
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  ⓘSupport for big monorepo repositories
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  ⓘCreate branching workflows for complex CI/CD
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  ⓘEnsure user-defined conditions are met before deploying the application
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  ⓘUse parameters inside your pipelines for greater flexibility
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  ⓘSecure your deployments by defining who and when deployment jobs can run
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  ⓘOfficial VMs and Docker images are refreshed weekly, include popular OSS tools out-of-the-box
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  ⓘAll UI, including real-time and historical pipeline visualizations, logs, and test results is made and continuously improved by Semaphore
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  ⓘAll users use the same product maintained by customer
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  ⓘWorkflow Builder: point-and-click interface to create and edit pipelines
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  ⓘDeclarative YAML configuration for all features
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  ⓘCLI can manage projects and do everything the UI can.
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  ⓘProvides a unified dashboard for failures across all runs in a project
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  ⓘSupport for big monorepo repositories
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  ⓘRun Semaphore on your hardware or the cloud
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  ⓘEnd user in charge of updating Semaphore
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  ⓘEnd user in charge of updating Semaphore
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  ⓘSupported via CLI
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  ⓘUpgrade in place with minimal downtime
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  ⓘAWS autoscaler is supplied
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  ⓘBoth epehemeral and non-ephemeral environments are supported
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  ⓘFast debugging via SSH access to both running and finished jobs
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  ⓘJobs run in isolated environments using built-in Docker support.
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