--- description: Learn more about GoCD pricing, benefits, and disadvantages for your business in Canada. Read verified software reviews and find tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: GoCD Pricing, Reviews & Features - Capterra Canada 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Continuous Integration Software](/directory/31119/continuous-integration/software) > [GoCD](/software/147886/gocd) # GoCD Canonical: https://www.capterra.ca/software/147886/gocd Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/147886/gocd?page=2) > Open source continuous delivery tool allows for advanced workflow modeling and dependencies management. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 7 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 7 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: ThoughtWorks ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$0.01 - **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: GoCD is Open Source Software. It is free. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Continuous Delivery - Continuous Deployment - Debugging ## Support Options - Chat ## Category - [Continuous Integration Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31119/continuous-integration/software) ## Alternatives 1. [GitHub](https://www.capterra.ca/software/129067/github) — 4.8/5 (6155 reviews) 2. [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.ca/software/171026/jenkins) — 4.5/5 (568 reviews) 3. [GitLab](https://www.capterra.ca/software/159806/gitlab) — 4.6/5 (1215 reviews) 4. [Bitbucket](https://www.capterra.ca/software/157785/bitbucket) — 4.6/5 (1343 reviews) 5. [Buddy](https://www.capterra.ca/software/157673/buddy) — 4.8/5 (176 reviews) ## Reviews ### "gocd - Totally changed our approach to development" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *September 30, 2019* | Financial Services Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: We previously used a version of an earlier product from same company (thoughtworks) called cruisecontrol (CC). We used CC for many years and it was a good product. When we started porting some of our servers from windows to linux as an experiment, we decided to simultaneously evaluate better continuous integration offerings to cruise control as a way to better-test our linux infrastructure. We looked at a number of products such as jenkins, travis and giblab. gocd was a pretty new offering at the time, but we felt it was a better solution than our existing CC installation and other CD/CI alternatives such as jenkins or travis. As we were in parallel porting our entire application to linux, and our application consistented of many different internal and external libraries, we wanted to be able to link everything up in a native CD (continuous development) platform from the get go. gocd didn't have the prettiest UI/UX (it's improved somewhat, but still takes a few days/weeks to get used to for newbies), but because it's a from-scratch CD product it can do things natively that many other platforms do in a more round-about way. it's pipelining concept being a fundamental configuration unit really matches how developers and designers think about and deploy software. Because the pipeline is a core element of gocd and everything is sort of designed around it, it's really quite thoughtfully done and intuitive from a conceptual standpoint. > > **Cons**: The configuration UI/UX is a bit clunky. This is a big area of focus for improvement for them, and it's gotten better but as far as software offerings in late 2019 go there's some to be desired. It probably took at least a week for average person to get comfortable using the web interface. You can skip the web interface and config directly from either command line, xml and they do support git-management of both. (we don't use these presently for other reasons, but they're there) > > Really a great product. As we had previously ported some-but-not all of our application stack to linux, once we had gocd up and running we were able to use it to accelerate and reduce errors in the porting of the hardest elements of our application over to linux. This isn't an advertised feature of the product or anything, but it's CD concepts are so clear that it became natural to just start out projects in GOCD rather than getting something working and then bringing it into the CI/CD platform. This is the real advantage of GOCD in our mind- everything is oriented so much around the pipline it lets you change your thinking to how things sound be, and then immediately do stuff in a more high-quality and automatic way. ----- ### "My experience from 3+ years ago" — 4.0/5 > **Luís** | *June 25, 2020* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: At the time i used it (it was a 3+ years ago), it had the best UI comparing with most of the competitors, at least the self deployed ones. It was easy to use, it supported plugins. > > **Cons**: It didn't had support for describe our process as code, but we used a plugin for that, that give us some issues at the time that we had to deal with, but no big deal. I remember that we switched to jenkins using theirs Jenkisfile because it had better fit on our workflow. i remember that the deployment process was not the best also. regarding the agents, the replication of them, or how to support more wasn't ideal, i remember that at the time we developed a script to automate that, but it was very tricky. > > Overall it was ok, we also used travis and jenkins at the time. travis was in another league, it's paid, a service, it had another approach, jenkins was worst than gocd, they created the blue project to make it better and it wasn't perfect, but for us it became better than gocd, but we still had projects using gocd. Later i left the company and started to use gitlab pipelines, GitHub workflows, travis, hosted solutions so i'm not very familiar with gocd nowadays, but at the time it was one the best solutions i used. ----- ### "Good for small projects, but doesn't scale very well" — 3.0/5 > **André** | *June 15, 2020* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: - free - pipeline graph is nice - multiple pipelines (although single XML config is a problem) - cross platform > > **Cons**: - single XML configuration for all pipelines, which is brittle and error prone - no support for declarative pipelines - hard to maintain - user interface is not intuitive - slow - agent setup is cumbersome > > Mixed feelings about GoCD, as on one side it provides nice visual feedback about the pipelines, on the other side whenever something went wrong it was a pain to fix. It also didn't scale well on our case when the number of pipelines and projects grew. ----- ### "GOCD" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *February 5, 2020* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: GOCD provides most reliable solution for fast delivery. > > **Cons**: Lots of configurations.some custom plugins does not support ----- ### "GoCd - Easly deploy your apps" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *June 10, 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is easy to connect with github using addons and manage groups and permissions. > > **Cons**: When you have too many pipelines you might face limitations with gocd config file size. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/147886/gocd?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ca/software/147886/gocd) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | ----- ## Structured Data