Best Build Automation Tools

Compare the Top Build Automation Tools as of December 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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    Travis CI

    Travis CI

    Travis CI

    The simplest way to test and deploy your projects in the cloud or on-prem. Easily sync your projects with Travis CI and you’ll be testing your code in minutes. Check out our features – now you can sign up for Travis CI using your Assembla, Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab account to connect your repositories! Testing your open-source projects is always 100% free! Log in with your cloud repository, tell Travis CI to test a project, and then push. Could it be any simpler? Many databases and services are pre-installed and can be enabled in your build configuration. Make sure every Pull Request to your project is tested before it’s merged. Updating staging or production as soon as your tests pass has never been easier! Builds on Travis CI are configured mostly through the build configuration stored in the file .travis.yml in your repository. This allows your configuration to be version controlled and flexible.
    Starting Price: $63 per 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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    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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    Launchdeck

    Launchdeck

    Launchdeck

    Build and deploy code automatically from your repository to your server with zero-downtime and instant rollbacks. Launchdeck is our answer to the complicated process of deployment. It’s an automated code deployment tool with a super-clear user interface and various smart features that’ll do (almost) all the tedious work for you.
    Starting Price: 8.5$/month
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    Opsera

    Opsera

    Opsera

    You choose your tools, we take care of the rest. Put together the perfect CI/CD stack that fits your organization’s goals with zero vendor lock-in. ‍Eliminate manual scripts and stop building toolchain automation. Free your engineers to focus on your core business. Pipeline workflows follow a declarative model so you focus on what is required — not how it’s accomplished — including: software builds, security scans, unit testing, and deployments. With Blueprints, diagnose any failures from within Opsera using a console output of every step of your pipeline execution. Comprehensive software delivery analytics across your CI/CD process in a unified view — including Lead Time, Change Failure Rate, Deployment Frequency, and Time to Restore. ‍Contextualized logs for faster resolution and improved auditing and compliance.
    Starting Price: $3.60 per user , Min 300 devs
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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