Semaphore CI vs Bamboo comparison of Continuous Integration servers

	Semaphore CI https://semaphoreci.com	Bamboo https://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo
Unique feature	Autoscaling made easy / Great CLI	Atlassian suite integration
Type of product	SaaS	On Premise
Offers a free plan	Yes 1,300 service minutes every month. Plans to release a free tier for open source projects.	Yes The full Atlassian suite is free for open source projects (https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request). For all others, they offer a minimal free trial.
Predictable pricing	Yes Semaphore doesn't have traditional pricing tiers, instead it lists the types of machines you can use and their pricing per second of service. They plan to release an annual plan at some point.	Yes They price their product based on number of build agents (more concurrency, more expensive). Given the notoriety and depth of the Atlassian suite, the pricing can be steep for small companies.
Support / SLA	N/A Not clear if they offer any real SLA on support.	Yes Dedicated tehnical support.
Paralellism Every CI servers tends to address this differently (parallel, distributed, build matrix). Some of it is just marketing, and some is just nuance. For this table, parallel means that tasks can be run concurrently on the same machine, distributed means that tasks can be scaled horizontally, on multiple machines How to split tests in parallel in the optimal way with Knapsack Pro	Yes Allows defining a custom build matrix such that your build can be parallelized accross several different environments.	Yes Up to 100 parallel agents
Distributed builds distributed means that tasks can be scaled horizontally, on multiple machines How to split tests in parallel in the optimal way with Knapsack Pro	N/A	Yes Agents can run on multiple machines.
Containers support / Build environment	Yes Allows running builds inside docker containers	Yes By default, they offer Docker support for the CI/CD job runners.
Analytics / Status overview Analytics and overview referrs to the ability to, at a glance, see what's breaking (be it a certain task, or the build for a specific project)	Yes	Yes Excellent dashboards, even more so thanks to integrations with the other tools in the Atlassian arsenal
Management support How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on	Yes	Yes Great management support, built for large scale companies, even allows setting per-environment permissions (ie: QA team can only deploy to their own, isolated environment)
Self-hosted option	No	Yes
Hosted plans / SaaS	Yes	No
Build pipelines A continuous delivery pipeline is a description of the process that the software goes through from a new code commit, through testing and other statical analysis steps all the way to the end-users of the product.	Yes Allows defining complex build workflows with ease	Yes Advanced pipeline support - with features built for feature branch support, various triggers, schedules, external notifications and more.
Reports Reports are about the abilty to see specific reports (like code coverage or custom ones), but not necesarily tied in into a larger dashboard.	N/A	Yes
Ecosystem Besides the official documentation and software, is there a large community using this product? Are there any community-driven tools / plugins that you can use?	N/A	Yes Large selection (~200) of apps that integrate with Bamboo, available on the official marketplace for Bamboo: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/app/bamboo
Specific language support: Ruby Some CI servers have built-in support for parsing RSpec or Istanbul output for example and we mention those. Some others make it even easier by detecting Gemfiles or package.json and automate parts of the process for the developer.	Yes Provides rich documentation on integrating Semaphore CI in Ruby projects. Also provides sudo access if you need to install system dependencies or C extensions.	Yes (partial) It looks like the documentation and features for Ruby are lagging behind. All I could find is this repo: https://github.com/drscream/bamboozled-ruby-plugin, following this support ticket: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-10948 from this documentation stub page: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo0601/getting-started-with-ruby-and-bamboo-935580774.html
Specific language support: JavaScript	Yes Provides rich documentation on integrating Semaphore CI in Javascript projects	No No specific support, beyond some documentation on integrating Selenium (not marked as partial support since that documentation is only promoted in the Atlassian docs, but is hosted by BrowserStack)
Integrations 1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc)	Yes Integration with GitHub and Slack. They allow building iOS projects via their macOS Mojave VM image.	Yes Deep integration with the Atlassian product stack (Jira, etc.).
API Custom integreation is available, via an API or otherwise, it's mentioned separately as it allows further customization than any of the Ecosystem/Integration options	No	Yes
Auditing	Yes	Yes
Additional notes	List of features is based on Semaphore 2.0	Not really something that should be purchased separatelly from the Atlassian stack.

Programming Language	Supported test runners	Installation guide	Knapsack Pro Library README / Source
Ruby	RSpec, Cucumber, Minitest, test-unit, Spinach, Turnip	Install	knapsack_pro gem
JavaScript	Cypress.io	Install	@knapsack-pro/cypress
JavaScript	Jest	Install	@knapsack-pro/jest
JavaScript / TypeScript	Any test runner in JavaScript	How to build native integration with Knapsack Pro API to run tests in parallel for any test runner	@knapsack-pro/core
Any programming language	Any test runner	How to build a custom Knapsack Pro API client from scratch in any programming language	-

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