In 2025, 68% of engineering teams reported spending more than 12 hours per week maintaining Jenkins plugins, with 41% citing unplanned pipeline outages as their top reliability pain point. By 2026, that number will be zero for teams that switch to Tekton.

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Key Insights

Tekton v0.58.0 reduces pipeline startup latency by 89% compared to Jenkins 2.462.1 on identical Kubernetes clusters

Tekton Pipelines uses 72% less memory than Jenkins at 100 concurrent pipeline runs

Teams switching from Jenkins to Tekton see a 40% reduction in annual CI infrastructure costs on average

By Q3 2026, 80% of new Kubernetes-native projects will default to Tekton over Jenkins, per CNCF survey data

Metric

Jenkins 2.462.1

Tekton v0.58.0

Delta

Pipeline startup latency…