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CircleCI vs Depot: which is more reliable? (2026)
Depot is more reliable than CircleCI, scoring 85.5 vs 59.2 out of 100. Over the last 90 days CircleCI reported 28 incidents and Depot reported 9, with effective uptime of 99.19% and 99.89% respectively. Depot resolves incidents faster on average (1h 6m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | CircleCI | Depot |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 59.2 | 85.5 |
| Rank (code hosting & CI platforms) | #6 | #2 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.19% | 99.89% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 28 | 9 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 26m | 1h 6m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where CircleCI and Depot differ
- CircleCI reported 3.1× as many incidents as Depot over the last 90 days (28 vs 9).
- Depot had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for CircleCI.
- Depot fixes problems faster: 1h 6m on average, against 2h 26m for CircleCI (2.2× quicker).
- CircleCI's longest outage on record lasted 14h 36m (Oct 9, 2026); Depot's lasted 1h 55m (Oct 8, 2026).
90-day uptime
CircleCI
Depot
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
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 API
Affected: CircleCI API, CircleCI UI
- Degraded performanceOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 3h 35m
Elevated wait times for machine jobs
Affected: Machine Jobs
Recent Depot incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 3h 2m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 1h 55m
Affected: Depot CI, us-east-1
- Degraded performanceOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 1h 41m
Slow disk I/O for US container builds
Affected: us-east-1
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved in 1h 48m
Slow disk I/O for EU container builds
Affected: eu-central-1
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 19m
Elevated queue times for Sandboxes and Depot CI Jobs
Affected: Depot CI
- Partial outageSep 20, 2026 · resolved in 6m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
Other code hosting & CI platforms to consider
- Bitrise · #1 · 99.90% uptime
- GitLab · #3 · 100% uptime
- Bitbucket · #4 · 99.74% uptime
- Buildkite · #5 · 99.57% uptime
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