Compare the Top Free Build Automation Tools as of July 2025

What are Free 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 Free Build Automation tools 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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    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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    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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