CircleCI vs GitHub: which is more reliable?
CircleCI had 13 min of outage and 4 incidents; GitHub had 9 h 39 min of outage and 22 incidents. By the vendors' own status pages, CircleCI spent less time in an outage.
CircleCI right now: Operational GitHub right now: Operational
Since 15 October 2026
From what CircleCI and GitHub published on their own status pages, read every 2 minutes. A vendor that reports problems more openly can look worse here than one that stays quiet.
| Measure | CircleCI | GitHub |
|---|---|---|
| Time without reported problems | 96.37 % | 92.09 % |
| Time with an outage | 13 min | 9 h 39 min |
| Time degraded | 17 h 37 min | 29 h 12 min |
| Days with an outage | 1 of 22 | 5 of 22 |
| Incidents posted | 4 | 22 |
| Of those, outages | 0 | 8 |
| Typical time to resolve | 1 h 23 min | 1 h 7 min |
| Longest incident | 2 h 15 min | 11 h 2 min |
Latest CircleCI incidents
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, 54 min
Increased wait time for Machine and Remote Docker jobsPostmortem
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, 1 h 3 min
Delays for gen2 dedicated IP range jobsPostmortem
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, 1 h 23 min
Increased Docker gen2 wait timesPostmortem
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, 2 h 15 min
Latest GitHub incidents
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, 36 min
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, 56 min
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, 2 h
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, 1 h 16 min
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, 1 h 43 min