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Lightweight community fork of Drone; container-based CI popular with Gitea and Forgejo users.

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.

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

Head to head

Metric	Woodpecker CI	GitHub Actions	Jenkins	Buildkite
Stars	8.1k	6.4k	26.8k	1.1k
Weekly downloads	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	71/100	69/100	81/100	56/100
Forks	735	1.5k	9.8k	407
Open issues	371	552	3.6k	114
Last commit	4d ago	1w ago	1d ago	3d ago
License	Apache-2.0	MIT	MIT	MIT
First released	2019	2019	2010	2014
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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Lightweight community fork of Drone; container-based CI popular with Gitea and Forgejo users.

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.

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

Metric	Woodpecker CI	GitHub Actions	Jenkins	Buildkite
Stars	8.1k	6.4k	26.8k	1.1k
Weekly downloads	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	71/100	69/100	81/100	56/100
Forks	735	1.5k	9.8k	407
Open issues	371	552	3.6k	114
Last commit	4d ago	1w ago	1d ago	3d ago
License	Apache-2.0	MIT	MIT	MIT
First released	2019	2019	2010	2014
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.