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Pick up to four tools and compare adoption, momentum and maintenance at a glance. The crown marks the leader in each row.

Hybrid CI with hosted orchestration and self-hosted agents; favored by large monorepo engineering orgs.

CI/CD built into GitHub with a huge marketplace of reusable actions; the most used CI in open source.

Self-hosted automation server with 2,000+ plugins; still widespread in enterprises despite its age.

Kubernetes-native CI/CD building blocks (Tasks, Pipelines) as CRDs; the base of OpenShift Pipelines.

Head to head

Metric	Buildkite	GitHub Actions	Jenkins	Tekton
Stars	1.1k	6.4k	26.8k	9.1k
Weekly downloads	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	56/100	69/100	81/100	72/100
Forks	407	1.5k	9.8k	2k
Open issues	114	552	3.6k	588
Last commit	3d ago	1w ago	1d ago	5d ago
License	MIT	MIT	MIT	Apache-2.0
First released	2014	2019	2010	2018
Signals	None	Popular	Popular	None
Listed in	DevOps & Cloud › CI/CD	DevOps & Cloud › CI/CD	DevOps & Cloud › CI/CD	DevOps & Cloud › CI/CD

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Hybrid CI with hosted orchestration and self-hosted agents; favored by large monorepo engineering orgs.

CI/CD built into GitHub with a huge marketplace of reusable actions; the most used CI in open source.

Self-hosted automation server with 2,000+ plugins; still widespread in enterprises despite its age.

Kubernetes-native CI/CD building blocks (Tasks, Pipelines) as CRDs; the base of OpenShift Pipelines.

Metric	Buildkite	GitHub Actions	Jenkins	Tekton
Stars	1.1k	6.4k	26.8k	9.1k
Weekly downloads	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	56/100	69/100	81/100	72/100
Forks	407	1.5k	9.8k	2k
Open issues	114	552	3.6k	588
Last commit	3d ago	1w ago	1d ago	5d ago
License	MIT	MIT	MIT	Apache-2.0
First released	2014	2019	2010	2018
Signals	None	Popular	Popular	None
Listed in	DevOps & Cloud › CI/CD	DevOps & Cloud › CI/CD	DevOps & Cloud › CI/CD	DevOps & Cloud › CI/CD

No download history for the selected tools.