Best Build Automation Tools

Compare the Top Build Automation Tools as of April 2025

What are Build Automation Tools?

Build automation tools are software tools that automate the process of compiling, testing, and deploying software applications. These tools help developers streamline the building of software from source code, ensuring that the process is repeatable, consistent, and efficient. Build automation typically includes compiling code, running unit tests, generating reports, packaging software, and deploying it to different environments. By automating these steps, build automation tools reduce human errors, improve efficiency, and support continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. Compare and read user reviews of the best Build Automation tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Jenkins

    Jenkins

    Jenkins

    The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. As an extensible automation server, Jenkins can be used as a simple CI server or turned into the continuous delivery hub for any project. Jenkins is a self-contained Java-based program, ready to run out-of-the-box, with packages for Windows, Linux, macOS and other Unix-like operating systems. Jenkins can be easily set up and configured via its web interface, which includes on-the-fly error checks and built-in help. With hundreds of plugins in the Update Center, Jenkins integrates with practically every tool in the continuous integration and continuous delivery toolchain. Jenkins can be extended via its plugin architecture, providing nearly infinite possibilities for what Jenkins can do. Jenkins can easily distribute work across multiple machines, helping drive builds, tests and deployments across multiple platforms faster.
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    GoodBarber

    GoodBarber

    GoodBarber

    GoodBarber is an App Builder, developed in France, enabling users to create native mobile apps for iOS and Android and PWAs (Progressive Web App) without coding. By industrializing the creation process, GoodBarber can significantly reduce the cost of owning an app. With more than 40 million apps downloaded each year, GoodBarber receives ongoing feedback to maintain the quality, performance and robustness of its apps at the highest level. GoodBarber's offer is made up of 3 main products: - eCommerce apps: providing an impeccable shopping experience on smartphones has become an essential requirement for doing business online. - Content Management apps : for content editor, community manager or local business manager. your message must be accessible from several channels to reach your audience. Your readers will access it from a native mobile app for iOS and Android or a PWA. - Reseller program: generate income by creating and selling apps without coding
    Starting Price: $25.00/month
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    Azure Pipelines
    Automate your builds and deployments with Pipelines so you spend less time with the nuts and bolts and more time being creative. Get cloud-hosted pipelines for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Build web, desktop and mobile applications. Deploy to any cloud or on‑premises. Build, test, and deploy Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, C/C++, .NET, Android, and iOS apps. Run in parallel on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Easily build and push images to container registries like Docker Hub and Azure Container Registry. Deploy containers to individual hosts or Kubernetes. Explore and implement a wide range of community-built build, test, and deployment tasks, along with hundreds of extensions from Slack to SonarCloud. Implement continuous delivery (CD) of your software to any cloud, including Azure, AWS, and GCP. Visualize deployment to any number of interdependent stages.
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    Viirtue

    Viirtue

    Viirtue

    With video collaboration software, mobile capabilities, and a best-in-class streamlined quote-to-cash solution, Viirtue transforms white label VoIP & UCaaS so you can compete with the big players and easily scale your business with modern tools and excellent support. Rebrand our full suite of white label communication tools as your own, becoming a one-stop-shop for technology solutions without bringing on additional team members. Schedule a demo and see how our industry-leading platform, quote-to-cash software, and other proprietary automation can make running a unified communications business easy. Fair pricing algorithm that only charges for seats that are used and not multiple times for users with multiple devices. Our proprietary, all-in-one quote-to-cash software and reseller dashboard provides a turnkey tool for sales, quoting, tax automation, marketing, and online learning that supports your branded platform and gives you the edge on capturing and winning more business.
    Starting Price: $5/month per user
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    FlowCentric Processware

    FlowCentric Processware

    FlowCentric Technologies

    FlowCentric Processware is a business process management solution that allows organizations to quickly develop process-driven applications. With FlowCentric Processware, users are able to manage complex business processes that run across different devices, systems, and departments. FlowCentric Processware also features activity monitoring dashboards that allow users to gain deeper insight into their processes. FlowCentric Processware is ideal for organisations that want to embrace digital transformation, innovate easily and gain results quickly. Companies use FlowCentric Processware to develop flexible process-driven solutions; extend the life of ERP systems; and add meaningful action to the data collected by IoT devices. The software is perfect for companies with 100+ employees that want to digitise an unlimited number of processes, improve operational efficiency, and enforce legislative controls.
    Starting Price: $13,341
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    GoCD

    GoCD

    ThoughtWorks

    Easily model and visualize complex workflows with GoCD. GoCD’s value stream map shows your entire path to production in a single view. Easily navigate across jobs, spot inefficiencies, and optimize your process. No plugin required, out of box CD. GoCD streamlines your CD workflow on popular cloud environments such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and more. GoCD excels at modeling complex CD workflows for fast feedback with its modeling constructs, parallel execution and dependency management. GoCD helps you troubleshoot a broken pipeline by tracking every change from commit to deploy in real time. Compare content - both files and commit messages - across any two arbitrary builds. GoCD integrates with many popular external tools and services via its extensible plugin architecture. We have put a lot of thought into making sure GoCD upgrades are painless and non-breaking even when you are using plugins. There are numerous high-quality, curated plugins currently available.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Continua CI

    Continua CI

    VSoft Technologies

    Continua CI is an Easy to use, Scalable and Affordable Continuous Integration Server. With an intuitive user interface, it takes just minutes to get up and running. With support for Visual Studio, MSBuild, Ant, Nant, Rake, FinalBuilder, Git, Hg, Svn, Perforce, and many other tools, Continua CI has something for everyone. Discover all the features that you can utilize to help streamline your build process using Continua CI. Continua CI's pricing model lets you get started with Unlimited Project, Unlimited Configurations, Unlimited Users. Free! Scaling up is affordable, unlike other continuous integration servers, idle agents do not consume expensive licenses. Get the most out of Continua CI through the Help and Resources section. You can get access to the latest videos, screenshots, articles and blogs relating to Continua CI. Download Continua CI and incorporate Continuous Integration into your build process for free.
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    JFrog Pipelines
    JFrog Pipelines empowers software teams to ship updates faster by automating DevOps processes in a continuously streamlined and secure way across all their teams and tools. Encompassing continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), infrastructure and more, it automates everything from code to production. Pipelines is natively integrated with the JFrog Platform and is available with both cloud (software-as-a-service) and on-prem subscriptions. Scales horizontally, allowing you to have a centrally managed solution that supports thousands of users and pipelines in a high-availability (HA) environment. Pre-packaged declarative steps with no scripting required, making it easy to create complex pipelines, including cross-team “pipelines of pipelines.” Integrates with most DevOps tools. The steps in a single pipeline can run on multi-OS, multi-architecture nodes, reducing the need to have multiple CI/CD tools.
    Starting Price: $98/month
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    PWSLab

    PWSLab

    PWSLab

    A single secured DevOps solution built for both Web and Mobile technologies. Git-based Source Control, Security and Compliance, Automated builds and testing, Continuous Delivery to infrastructure, Monitoring and more.
    Starting Price: $8 per user/month
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    Microtica

    Microtica

    Microtica

    Automating your workflow can be achieved by using pipelines as they are the heart of the CI process in Microtica. The build process of every component and microservices, whether it’s triggered manually or automatically, is done in a pipeline. The build process is defined by a single source of truth, a microtica.yaml file in the root folder of the repository. With user customizability as a key feature, every user is able to define how their build process is done and what commands are ran by changing the microtica.yaml file.
    Starting Price: $99/month
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    Gradle

    Gradle

    Gradle

    Gradle Inc. is the company behind the leading software solution for improving developer productivity and happiness called Develocity (formerly Gradle Enterprise) and the popular open-source Gradle Build Tool, which is downloaded over 30 million times a month. Gradle is also pioneering the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE). Elite development teams from companies like Airbnb, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and Netflix, practice DPE to deliver quality software more rapidly at scale. They achieve this by leveraging Develocity’s innovative build and test performance acceleration technologies and analytics to proactively improve the reliability of the developer toolchain and make failure troubleshooting more efficient.
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    AWS CodeBuild
    AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. With CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use. With AWS CodeBuild, your build artifacts are encrypted with customer-specific keys that are managed by the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). CodeBuild is integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), so you can assign user-specific permissions to your build projects. AWS CodeBuild belongs to a family of AWS Code Services.
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    IBM Rational Build Forge
    IBM® Rational® Build Forge® products offer an adaptive execution framework that creates a software assembly line to automate and accelerate software delivery. It allows you to standardize and automate repetitive tasks, uncover development bottlenecks, determine trends for specific projects and manage compliance mandates. Available in standard and enterprise editions, these products integrate into your current environment and support major development languages, scripts, tools and platforms. Accelerates build and release cycles through iterative development and parallel processes. Gives developers preconfigured build processes within their integrated development environments (IDEs). Simplifies compliance management with self-documenting audit trails and role-based security. Increases team efficiency with centralized build and release management using tools you already have.
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    Buildkite

    Buildkite

    Buildkite

    Run the open-source buildkite-agent on your own infrastructure for maximum speed, control, and security. The agent checks out your source code, executes custom hooks and overrides, and then runs your build jobs. Your source code never leaves your infrastructure. You can install the agent using one of our packages and binaries for almost every platform and architecture, including Ubuntu, Debian, Mac, Windows, Docker, and more. The agent’s artifact and meta-data storage allows for share-nothing, state-free build jobs that can be easily distributed and scaled across any number of agents. Run as many build agents as you need (up to 10,000 connected per account), without breaking a sweat. The open-source Elastic CI Stack for AWS gives you an easy-to-maintain, elastically scaling CI stack in your own AWS account. Or if you prefer to roll your own, you can use the tools you’re already familiar with in your production environments (such as Packer and Terraform).
    Starting Price: $15 per user per month
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    Drone

    Drone

    Harness

    Configuration as a code. Pipelines are configured with a simple, easy‑to‑read file that you commit to your git repository. Each pipeline step is executed inside an isolated Docker container that is automatically downloaded at runtime. Any source code manager. Drone integrates seamlessly with multiple source code management systems, including GitHub, GitHubEnterprise, Bitbucket, and GitLab. Any platform. Drone.io natively supports multiple operating systems and architectures, including Linux x64, ARM, ARM64 and Windows x64. Any language. Drone works with any language, database or service that runs inside a Docker container. Choose from thousands of public Docker images or provide your own. Create and share plugins. Drone uses containers to drop pre‑configured steps into your pipeline. Choose from hundreds of existing plugins, or create your own. Drone makes advanced customization easy. Implement custom access controls, approval workflows, secret management, yaml syntax extensions& more.
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    FlowWright
    Business Process Management Software (BPMS) & BPM Workflow Automation Tool. Companies need workflow, forms, compliance, and automation routing support. Our low-code options make creating + editing workflows simple. Our best-in-class forms capabilities, make it possible to rapidly build forms, forms logic, and workflows for forms-driven workflow processes. Companies have many existing systems in place that need to work with each other. Our business process integrations across systems are loosely-coupled + intelligently integrated. When you use FlowWright to automate your business, you gain access to standard metrics and metrics that you define. BPM analytics are a key part of any BPM workflow management software solution. FlowWright can be deployed as a cloud solution or deployed in an on-premise or .NET hosted environment (including AWS and Azure). It was built in .NET Foundation C# code and all tools are fully browser-based, requiring no plug-ins.
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    inedo BuildMaster
    BuildMaster lets you release your software reliably, to any environment, at whatever pace the business demands. BuildMaster is a self-hosted, user-friendly CI/CD platform that can automate builds and deployments while giving the whole team visibility and control over the release process. BuildMaster stands in front of your tools like a command center, providing a consistent process across builds, deployments, and releases. Beginners and experts alike can build CI/CD pipelines with templates, drag-and-drop editors, and pre-existing PowerShell, Python, and other scripts. BuildMaster is self-managed, which means you have the option to run BuildMaster on-premises or in your private/public cloud. BuildMaster can replace and/or work with different build automation tools. Discover the differences, similarities, and compatibility with your existing tools.
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    Nx

    Nx

    Nx

    Trusted by developers, enterprises, and open-source projects. Whether your workspace has a single project or a thousand, Nx will keep your CI fast and your workspace maintainable. Next generation build system with first-class mono repo support and powerful integrations. Nx makes scaling easy. Modern techniques such as distributed task execution and computation caching make sure your CI times remain fast, even as you keep adding projects to your workspace. It can figure out whether the same computation has run before and can restore the files and the terminal output from its cache. Smart, automated, dynamic distribution of tasks across multiple machines to get maximum parallelization and CPU-efficient CI runs. Share your local computation cache with teammates and your CI system for maximum efficiency. Nothing is faster than not running a task. Nx analyzes your project graph and can differentiate it against a baseline to determine which projects changed.
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    Apache Maven

    Apache Maven

    The Apache Software Foundation

    Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. If you think that Maven could help your project, you can find out more information in the "About Maven" section of the navigation. This includes an in-depth description of what Maven is and a list of some of its main features. If the problem has not been reported before, the recommended way to get help is to subscribe to the Maven Users Mailing list. Many other users and Maven developers will answer your questions there, and the answer will be archived for others in the future.
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    OpenMake Meister

    OpenMake Meister

    OpenMake Software

    OpenMake Meister® delivers a highly reusable and accelerated build solution that can quickly adapt to changing development demands. It gives you control over the logic that drives your compile/link/archive process and eliminates the need for one-off scripts that are brittle and error prone. It accelerates builds, relieves congestion, stores binaries and gathers critical dependency information that can be used for release packaging. Accelerate CI with fast compiles and parallel processing using reliable dependency management across thousands of server pools. Meister reduces build times from hours to minutes. Standardize binary assembly for software builds that dynamically adapt to each version update. Our model-driven approach reduces or eliminates ad hoc scripting. Expose all artifacts of your release candidate, even those not managed by a version control solution. Meister Impact Analysis and Audit Reports eliminate guesswork.
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