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title: CircleCI vs GitHub Actions
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# 86.98% reliability? Try 99%+.

GitHub Actions down (again)? Already in 2026, GitHub customers have suffered through 7 degradations and 3 full incidents. You deserve CI/CD that's always up. Try CircleCI today.

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Platform Capabilities

## The CI/CD platform built for the way code moves today.

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