TeamCity: What It Is, Pricing & Alternatives

Overview

TeamCity is the continuous integration and delivery server of JetBrains, the maker of IntelliJ IDEA and other developer tools. It is available as TeamCity On-Premises and as TeamCity Cloud. The on-premises server comes in two major editions, Professional and Enterprise, installed from the same distribution, plus special Enterprise Plus and Open Source editions.^[12] The Professional edition is a free tier that does not require a licence key, includes three build agents with an option to buy more, and has the full range of Enterprise features within limits such as a maximum of 100 build configurations; production use beyond those limits requires an Enterprise server licence plus build agent licences for parallel builds.^[12] Its paid Enterprise edition is licensed as one server licence plus build agent licences, so cost scales with the number of builds run in parallel rather than with users.^[12] TeamCity is often chosen by teams that want an on-premises CI server with a more integrated feature set than a plugin-based Jenkins installation. Its pricing for Enterprise and Cloud is less visible than that of SaaS rivals, and its community is smaller than Jenkins’.

What TeamCity does

Free Professional edition with 3 agents
Professional and Enterprise from one distribution
Enterprise Plus and Open Source editions
On-premises and Cloud products
Agent licences for parallel builds

TeamCity pricing

Professional (on-premises): free, no licence key, 3 build agents, up to 100 build configurations. Enterprise: server licence plus build agent licences; price on JetBrains' store. TeamCity Cloud is sold by subscription.