Code Hosting & CI/CD · reliability comparison
Bitbucket vs CircleCI: which is more reliable? (2026)
Bitbucket is more reliable than CircleCI, scoring 81.2 vs 59.2 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Bitbucket reported 5 incidents and CircleCI reported 28, with effective uptime of 99.74% and 99.19% respectively. Bitbucket resolves incidents faster on average (1h 58m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Bitbucket | CircleCI |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 81.2 | 59.2 |
| Rank (code hosting & CI platforms) | #4 | #7 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.74% | 99.19% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 28 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 58m | 2h 26m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Bitbucket and CircleCI differ
- CircleCI reported 5.6× as many incidents as Bitbucket over the last 90 days (28 vs 5).
- Bitbucket fixes problems faster: 1h 58m on average, against 2h 26m for CircleCI.
- Bitbucket's longest outage on record lasted 4h 56m (Oct 1, 2026); CircleCI's lasted 14h 36m (Oct 9, 2026).
90-day uptime
Bitbucket
CircleCI
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Bitbucket incidents
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 40m
Disrupted Bitbucket availabilityofficial update ↗
Affected: Website, API, Git via SSH, Authentication and user management, Git via HTTPS, Webhooks +7 more
- Major outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 2h 1m
Bitbucket Cloud - Service Disruptionofficial update ↗
Affected: Website, API, Pipelines
- Partial outageOct 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 56m
Job processing and scheduling is degraded affecting multiple Atlassian productsofficial update ↗
Affected: Pipelines
- Degraded performanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved in 44m
Delays with Bitbucket Pipelines Execution
Affected: Pipelines
- Degraded performanceSep 11, 2026 · resolved in 1h 28m
Intermittent reliability issue with Bitbucket Cloud
Affected: Website, API, Git via SSH, Git via HTTPS, Pipelines
Recent CircleCI incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 1h 3m
Delays for gen2 dedicated IP range jobs
Affected: Docker Jobs
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 1h 24m
Increased Docker gen2 wait times
Affected: Docker Jobs
- Degraded performanceOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 2h 16m
Increased wait times for macOS jobs on m4pro.large
Affected: macOS Jobs
- Degraded performanceOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 1h 13m
Delays starting macOS jobs that use Xcode 26.6.0
Affected: macOS Jobs
- Partial outageOct 9, 2026 · resolved in 14h 36m
Delay in data appearing in UI and APIofficial update ↗
Affected: CircleCI API, CircleCI UI
- Degraded performanceOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 3h 35m
Elevated wait times for machine jobs
Affected: Machine Jobs
Other code hosting & CI platforms to consider
- Bitrise · #1 · 99.90% uptime
- Depot · #2 · 99.89% uptime
- GitLab · #3 · 100% uptime
- Azure DevOps · #5 · 98.62% uptime
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