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CircleCI vs honest-ci
CircleCI provides full CI pipelines but lacks built-in test-integrity diff analysis that honest-ci offers.
CircleCICI/CD platform for building, testing and deploying
honest-ciCatch the pull request that passes by changing its testsWhich to pick
Pick CircleCI if you want…
- AI-powered continuous integration
- Full-stack CI/CD pipelines
- Integrations with GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket (on CircleCI's list, not honest-ci's)
Pick honest-ci if you want…
- Detecting test changes that hide failures
- Integrations with GitHub Actions, Python or JavaScript (on honest-ci's list, not CircleCI's)
Side by side
- What it is
- CircleCI:CircleCI is a CI/CD platform that automates building, testing, and deploying code with AI-enhanced automation.
- honest-ci:honest-ci is a GitHub Action that flags pull requests that pass by deleting, skipping, or altering tests.
- Best for
- CircleCI:AI-powered continuous integration
- honest-ci:Detecting test changes that hide failures
- Who it’s for
- CircleCI:Developers, platform engineers, security engineers, and engineering managers.
- honest-ci:teams using GitHub that want to guard test integrity in PRs
- Pricing
- CircleCI:Freemium
- honest-ci:Freemium
- Plans
- CircleCI:Free $0 per month · Performance $15 per month
- honest-ci:Free $0 · Small team $49/mo, billed yearly · Team $149/mo, billed yearly · Larger team $15/person/mo, billed yearly
- Works with
- CircleCI:GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
- honest-ci:GitHub Actions, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go
CircleCI features
- Execution environments. Run jobs in Docker, Linux, Windows, macOS, Arm and GPU containers.
- Build optimization. Layer caching and resource classes speed up builds and reduce compute usage.
- Autoscaling. Automatically adds resources to handle peak workloads.
- Technical services. Provides release management, rollback, and deployment orchestration.
- Orbs registry. Reusable, shareable YAML packages for common CI tasks.
honest-ci features
- Detect deleted tests. Flags PRs where a test file or case disappears without replacement.
- Skip/focus markers. Identifies new skip, xfail, todo or focus markers added to tests.
- Assertion count check. Alerts when a test file loses more assertions than it gains.
- Changed expectations. Catches literal expected-value changes in tests alongside code edits.
- Coverage threshold monitoring. Blocks PRs that lower or remove coverage thresholds or ignore tests.
- Sensitive path rules. Holds PRs that modify configured sensitive paths or exceed size limits.
CircleCI vs honest-ci FAQ
Is CircleCI or honest-ci free?+
CircleCI has a free plan; paid plans start at $15/month (Performance). honest-ci has a free plan and paid plans.
Do CircleCI and honest-ci integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: CircleCI lists GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS and 2 more; honest-ci lists GitHub Actions, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript and 2 more.
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