Compare the Top Build Automation Tools for Startups as of April 2025

What are Build Automation Tools for Startups?

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 for Startups currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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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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    CircleCI

    CircleCI

    CircleCI

    Automate your development process with CI hosted in the cloud or on a private server. Take control of your code and manage every source of change. CircleCI means change validation, at every step. Trust that you can release updates right when your customers need them, with the certainty they’ll work every time. The power to create without limits. Code in every language and across multiple execution environments. If you can write it, we can build, test, and deploy it. With flexible environments and thousands of pre-built integrations, your pipelines never limit the possibility of what you can deliver. We’re the only CI/CD platform that’s FedRAMP certified and SOC 2 Type II compliant. Built-in features like audit logs, OpenID Connect, third-party secrets management, and LDAP give you complete control of your code.
    Starting Price: $50 per month
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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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    Hostman

    Hostman

    Hostman, Inc

    Hostman - cloud platform that deploys and scales your web applications. It saves developers lots of time, and businesses lots of money, because it automates DevOps, with CI/CD out of the box. Hostman is very easy to use, intuitive, and flexible: on Hostman you can host static websites, back-end applications, Docker containers, and databases. Scaling has never been easier. Just enable it and it will scale your application automatically within the limits you set up. The service is completely free for your static website or front-end app. What's more, it includes a free SSL certificate and global CDN (45 full-stack edge locations with 65+ Tbps total throughput) out of the box. For back-end services we offer very simple pricing using a pay-per-use model (from $6.50). Our service is global, so you can host your application anywhere in the world. We host your services on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and Digital Ocean.
    Starting Price: $6.50 per month
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    RapidDeploy

    RapidDeploy

    MidVision

    Automate middleware provisioning and carry out reliable, regular and repeatable automated software deployments, with self-documenting and easily shareable deployment plans. Link tasks together into complex orchestrations, and carry them out with the click of a button. Visualize them clearly and control them easily via the RapidDeploy orchestration pane. Organize your organization’s release cycle with privilege and approval gates for improved efficiency, and gain the ability to deploy regularly into production as soon as updates are made. RapidDeploy is a powerful application release and deployment automation tool. Built for DevOps teams and enterprise continuous delivery, RapidDeploy delivers consistent high-volume deployments so your teams can focus on developing. We’ve been helping our customers realize the significant productivity gains that can be achieved through automating releases since 2008, and our engineers and consultants have accrued a wealth of expertise in this space.
    Starting Price: $1500.00/year
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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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    21YunBox

    21YunBox

    21YunBox

    21YunBox provides a modern solution to accelerate any website in China legitimately using the tools your teams love. The tech stack you love broke by default in China. But we bring them back—no more headaches in China. Git push, and your site goes live in China in minutes. 21YunBox Edge: Give your website fast access for 1.41 Billion people in China. Distributed just like a CDN, but with advanced functionality for publishing entire sites and web apps. 21YunBox Build: The Git workflow works in China. Low Code, built-in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. Compliance in China: Following Chinese law doesn't need to be complicated. We help you pick the right permits and licenses to stay compliant with Chinese law. Website Hosting in China Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) do not support China by default. With 21YunBox, we bring back your DXP in China with high-speed and fully compliant with Chinese laws.
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    Gravity Cloud

    Gravity Cloud

    Gravity Cloud

    Gravity cloud is an Internal Developer Platform that enables engineering teams to run and manage cloud at scale. The feature-rich IDP brings complete control and visibility for Kubernetes, Databases, RBAC, CI/CD and much more. Gravity also enables complete cost visibility along with any action performed on the cloud. For engineering teams, IDP becomes an important part of the developer lifecylce to increase productivity and reducing total cost of ownership on the non-core developement work. Gravity's unique IDP ensures to deliver the maximum output from your software lifecyles.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    IBM DevOps Build
    DevOps Build is a distributed, multiplatform build-management tool for configuring and running software builds. Facilitate complex project builds based on project relationships. Create a secure environment that conforms to your organization’s structure and needs. Configure and run your builds with a template-driven process that accelerates feedback. See standard build processes, source control rules, and test reports. Identify project variances. Control who can see and run builds. Save time, and effort when configuring security settings. Generate graphs of complex app makeup and high-performance reports to see project trends. Use the Docker plug-in to build Docker images with DevOps build. Automate cloning a Git repository, tag source artifacts, and publish source-artifact changes. Use tested integrations with tools and technologies from IBM, open source and third parties.
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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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