Aiming at confined concrete with stirrups and carbon fiber reinforced plastic(CFRP) respectively, the major influence factors of mechanical behavior of confined concrete under axial compression were studied based on reported experimental data. The equations for calculating the peak stress, peak strain and ultimate strain were proposed respectively for confined concrete with stirrups and CFRP. Contrastive analysis shows that the behavior of confined concrete with stirrups is better than confined concrete with CFRP in low characteristic value, whereas the conclusion is contrary in high characteristic value.