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 |
Why teams choose Semaphore over Bitbucket
Build without friction.
See what matters.
Turn data into delivery improvements.
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
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
“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
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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