50+ CI/CD Tools To Streamline DevOps Workflows

The modern software development lifecycle comprises two key phases: continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery or deployment (CD). In both stages, automation reduces manual labor, minimizing human errors.

That enables DevOps teams to focus on mission-critical work instead of continually fixing mistakes.

Automating CI/CD also provides a check and balance system for rolling back errors. Aside from ensuring optimal system performance, this also improves other areas, like security and compliance.

Yet, for that to work, your DevOps team needs the best CI/CD tools for the job. Here are more than 50 robust solutions you can choose from.

What Are CI/CD Tools?

CI/CD tools automate the continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment phases of the software development lifecycle. 

Here’s what each phase involves:

But, are CI/CD tools really necessary?

Why Are CI/CD So Important?

Some of the benefits of CI/CD tools include:

So, which tools are best for what aspect of the CI/CD pipeline?

End-To-End CI/CD Tools

Some of these CI/CD tools can help you create and automate entire pipelines. Others are better at specific tasks. We’ve compiled a quick list of the best CI/CD tools currently available.

Here is a more detailed breakdown of these and other top CI/CD platforms.

1. Buddy

Buddy enables engineers to build and manage complex CI/CD pipelines quickly and with ease. It gives engineers direct deployment access to public repositories such as GitHub. 

Buddy’s core features include file transferring, error and bug detection, change detection, project planning, alerts and notifications, and templates for team workflow collaboration and communication.

Key Buddy features include:

Buddy pricing: Free plan, Pro plan – $75 per month, On-premises – $35 per month per user

2. Jenkins

Jenkins split from Hudson (another CI tool) after a dispute with Oracle. It is a free and open-source automation server for web-based and on-premises projects. Developed in Java, it includes packages for Unix-like, Windows, and macOS operating systems. Jenkins is also popular because it works with hundreds of plugins to automate the build and deploy phases of software development.

Key Jenkins features include:

Jenkins Pricing: Free

3. Circle CI

CircleCI enables engineers to build, test, and deploy software at scale. You can integrate it directly with your version control system, such as GitHub or Bitbucket, and it will validate your code changes in real time. CircleCI also helps manage your build logs, access controls, and testing. It is also highly customizable.

Key CircleCI features include:

CircleCI Pricing: Free plan, Performance plan (cloud) – $15/month, Scale plan (cloud) – $2,000/month, Server plan (self-hosted) – Custom pricing

4. Codemagic CI/CD

Formerly Nevercode, Codemagic automates the build, test, and deployment phases of mobile apps, whether you use standard or premium instances of Linux, Windows, or macOS build machines. Codemagic also integrates with most cloud-based or self-hosted Git repositories, like GitHub and Azure DevOps.

Key Codemagic features include:

Codemagic Pricing: For teams, pricing is Per build minutes or concurrency for Pay-as-you-go plan. Or, $3,990 per year in the fixed-price plan. Enterprise pricing is available from $12,000 per year.

5. Bamboo Data Center

The Bambo Data Center combines automated builds, tests, and releases in a single workflow through its five building blocks; projects, plans, storage, jobs, and tasks). It also integrates with many tools to create your build and manage automatic pipelines. Plus, Bamboo CI/CD generates detailed reports and notifications.

Key Bamboo CI/CD features include:

Bamboo CI/CD Pricing: 30 days free trial, then starts at $1,200 per year for unlimited jobs and one remote agent. It goes up to $187,380 for unlimited jobs and 2,000 remote agents.

6. GitLab CI/CD

While GitLab is the Git-based repository system, GitLab CI/CD lets you build, test, and publish software without needing third-party integrations. It runs automated scripts in parallel or sequentially, provides change previews, and can quickly roll back changes in case of an error. There’s more.

Key GitLab CI/CD features include:

GitLab CI/CD Pricing: Free – Up to 400 CI/CD minutes, 5 users, 10 GB transfer, and 5GB storage; Premium at $29/user/month (billed annually) – Up to 10,000 CI/CD minutes with support and 100GB transfer, etc; Ultimate plan – Custom pricing for up to 50,000 CI/CD minutes, 250GB storage, and 500GB transfer.

7. Travis CI

Travis CI was the first tool to offer Continuous Integration as a Service. It lets you sign up, link your favorite repository, build, and test apps. It also integrates seamlessly with common cloud repositories like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.

Travis CI runs in the cloud and features many automated CI options without requiring a dedicated server. This enables you to test code in different environments, machines, and operating systems.

Key Travis CI features include:

Travis CI Pricing: Free for open source projects. Travis CI Enterprise Plan – $34 per user per month (self-hosted). Travis Cloud pricing — From $69 per month to $794+ per month.

8. Buildbot

Buildbot is primarily a job scheduling tool for Python 3.0 and later. It automatically queues, executes, and reports on jobs whenever the resources it needs are available. An installation of Buildbot comprises a master and a collection of workers.

The master monitors source-code repositories for changes, coordinates tasks for workers, and reports outcomes to end users and developers. The workers can run on various operating systems, too.

Key Buildbot features include:

Buildbot Pricing: Free and open-source

9. TeamCity

JetBrain’s TeamCity is an affordable CI/CD tool for teams and individuals. It is available as a software-based, self-hosted, on-premise solution or as a managed cloud service. It supports multi-platform development, extensive cloud integration, and advanced controls for complex builds.

Key TeamCity CI/CD features include:

TeamCity Pricing: TeamCity Cloud plan – $45 per month (14-day free trial), Professional server license (On-premises) – Free forever, Enterprise server license – From $1,999+ per year.

10. Codeship

CodeBees’ Codeship provides CI/CD as a Service, simplifying setup, control, and operations at scale. It uses single-tenant AWS servers to improve security, performance, and reliability. Codeship also integrates with virtually any cloud, tool, or service so you can automate your CI/CD tasks anywhere.

Key Codeship features include:

Codeship Pricing: Free – Up to 100 builds/month, Basic plan – Starts from $49/month for unlimited builds, 2 parallel test pipelines, and 1 concurrent build, Pro plan – Up to 20 concurrent builds.

11. GoCD

GoCD is a continuous delivery platform rather than a full-blown CI/CD tool. But it integrates with many CI tools to complete CI/CD pipelines. A major benefit of GoCD is its Value Stream Map feature, which helps companies visualize their CD pipelines. GoCD is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac and runs cloud-native deployment on environments such as Kubernetes, AWS, and Docker.

Key GoCD features include:

GoCD Pricing: Free and open-source

12. GitHub Actions

If you already use GitHub as your Git source code management platform, you can seamlessly connect it to Actions for CI/CD pipelines without needing third-party tooling. Its GitHub Actions enable workflow automation with GitHub events, from issue creation and push to code reviews to branch management. You can also use any language and run your builds on Linux, ARM, Windows, containers, and macOS.

Key GitHub Actions features include:

GitHub Actions Pricing: Free for public repositories, Flexible pricing for private repositories (with 2,000 build minutes free); Team plan – $4 per user per month, Enterprise plan – $21 per user per month.

13. Semaphore

Semaphore defines CI/CD best practices with a pull request-based workflow. Other top features include cloud and on-premises hosting, native Docker and K8s support, secrets and dependency management, customizable stages, parallel execution, and control flow switches. 

Key Semaphore features include:

Semaphore Pricing: Upon request. Includes a 14-day free trial for building with Linux, Docker, and macOS.

14. Spinnaker

Spinnaker delivers an open-source, multi-cloud CI/CD platform. You can automate system tests, manage your rollouts, and trigger pipelines through git events. While it is a CD tool, it connects seamlessly with CI tools like Travis CI, Jenkins, Docker, and more integrations.

Key Spinnaker CI/CD features include:

Spinnaker Pricing: Open-source

15. Harness CI/CD

Harness acquired Drone CI to strengthen its CI/CD capabilities. With Harness CI, you get a self-service CI tool built on container technologies, meaning all extensions are standardized and builds are isolated. Harness CD delivers a self-service CD module for deploying as needed. No scripts, version dependencies, or plug-ins are required.

Key Harness CI features include:

Harness CI/CD Pricing: Varies by feature. For example, Continuous Delivery with GitOps costs $0 on the Free Plan, $100 per Service per Month on the Team Plan, and Custom pricing per Developer per Month on the Enterprise Plan. 

For Continuous Integration, you’ll be billed $0 on the Free Plan, $25 per Service per Month under the Team Plan, and Custom pricing per Developer per Month on the Enterprise Plan.   

16. DeployBot

DeployBot is a build deployment management tool for manual and automatic releases. It also supports simultaneous multi-server deployments. DeployBot builds your code by fetching dependencies from repositories such as Node.JS, Composer, and NPM.

It has New Relic and Bugsnag integration, which helps you keep a close eye on the stability of your deployments. DeployBot also integrates with services such as Slack to deliver automatic notifications.

Key DeployBot features include:

DeployBot Pricing: Free plan – up to 10 servers and unlimited build minutes, Plus plan – $25 per month up to 600 servers and 20 repositories, Premium plan – $50 per month up to 1,000 servers and 50 repos.

17. Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines is one of the standalone services under the Azure DevOps suite of collaborative services. Azure Pipelines helps you build, test, and deploy all your projects with any language and on any platform. It enables fast builds by integrating deep with GitHub pull requests, statuses, and checks. It also works seamlessly with containers, Kubernetes, YAML, and deployments to any cloud. Plus, it is free for open-source projects.

Key Azure Pipelines features include:

Azure Pipelines Pricing: Free up to 10 open-source projects; $40/month for each parallel job and 1,800 minutes for Microsoft-hosted CI/CD; $15/month per extra parallel job with unlimited minutes.

18. Concourse

This Go-based automation platform enables you to build, test, and deploy projects on virtually any automation pipeline at scale. It is open-source, container-based, and opinionated.

A Concourse pipeline resembles a continuous and distributed Makefile. In each job, there is a build plan that declares the job’s input resources and what you can run with them when they change.

Key Concourse features include:

Concourse Pricing: Free and open-source

19. Bitrise

Like Codemagic, Bitrise is a CI/CD tool for developing, testing, and rolling out mobile apps. The mobile CI/CD automatically configures workflows so you can simplify integrating and deploying your Android, React, IOS, Native, flutter, and macOS apps. It works with GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket, including the Enterprise editions.

Key Bitrise CI/CD features include:

Bitrise Pricing: Free for students and individuals. 30-day free trial. The starter plan costs $99 per month for up to 10 team members and unlimited monthly build credits. Team pricing is  $225/month for unlimited team members and 10 concurrent builds. Custom pricing on Enterprise plan.

20. Codefresh

This Kubernetes native CI/CD solution is also among the few tools offering straightforward Docker registry integration across all pipelines. It also enables you to build docker images as needed directly in the pipeline. Codefresh integrates neatly with other tools, from GitHub Actions to Jenkins.

Key Codefresh features include:

Codefresh Pricing: Free Community Edition up to 5 developers and 1,000 cloud credits per month; Team plan is $76/developer/month up to 15 developers and 1,000 cloud credits per month; Enterprise – custom pricing for unlimited developers and 1,000 cloud credits per month.

21. Bitbucket CI/CD

Building your projects with BitBucket CI/CD means developing right next to your code – if you use Bitbucket as your Git repository. That means you won’t need servers, third-party repositories, and special configuration to get going. It also integrates natively with JIRA agile project management.

Key BitBucket CI/CD features include:

Bitbucket Pricing: Free up to 5 users, 1o deployment environments, and 50 build minutes/month; Standard plan – $3/user/month with unlimited users, 2,500 build minutes/month, and 100 deployment environments; Premium – $6/user/month with 3,500 build minutes, and 100 deployment environments.

22. AppVeyor CI/CD

With AppVeyor, you get a CI/CD platform for .NET applications. You can use a NuGet server, complete with support and a bubbling community. It also supports custom reports as well as GitHub (including Enterprise), GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Gitea, and Kiln.

Key AppVeyor features include:

AppVeyor CI/CD Pricing: Free for unlimited public projects; Basic – $29/month for 1 concurrent job, 1 private project, and 5 self-hosted jobs; $59/month for unlimited private projects, 1 concurrent job, and 5 self-hosted jobs; Premium – $99/month for unlimited private projects, 2 concurrent jobs, and 5 self-hosted jobs.

23. Flux by WeaveWorks

With Flux, you can continuously deliver user-facing apps and infrastructure using version control for each step. This ensures reversibility, audibility, and reproducibility. Your team can deploy code as soon as they create it and swiftly roll back if necessary.

Key Flux features include:

Flux Pricing: Free and Enterprise (custom pricing upon request)

Now, even the best CI/CD tools cannot work in a vacuum. In the following sections, we’ll cover the other DevOps tools you may need to run successful CI/CD workflows.

24. Kapstan 

Kapstan is an internal developer platform (IDP) that automates the entire CI/CD process, from code integration to deployment. It integrates with version control systems like GitHub and Bitbucket for seamless code pushes.

Kapstan key features include:

Kapstan pricing: Growth Plan – one-month free trial, Scale Plan – custom pricing based on requirements.

Cloud Cost Management Tools

Cloud cost management enables you to view, monitor, and optimize your cloud spend. While some provide overviews, others deliver detailed unit costs, like cost per customer, cost per software feature, etc. Here are five of the best:

25. CloudZero

CloudZero provides cloud cost intelligence for engineering, FinOps, and finance teams. With CloudZero, you can map cloud costs to specific products, features, teams, and more without endless manual tagging.

CloudZero AnyCost is multi-cloud and empowers you to view, understand, and optimize your cloud spend across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Also, you can view your costs by customer, feature, dev team, and more, across services such as Snowflake and Kubernetes.

Key CloudZero features include:

CloudZero Pricing: Tiered pricing that’s stable, predictable, and won’t vary month to month upon request.

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26. AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer helps visualize, analyze, and manage AWS costs. You can sort and group your figures by usage type and tag — daily or grouped by month. It comprises four different parts — AWS Budgets, AWS Budgets Reports, AWS Cost Explorer API, and AWS Cost Explorer and Resource Granularity. You’re charged for each portion of the service you use.

Key AWS Explorer features include:

AWS Cost Explorer Pricing: AWS Cost Explorer Hourly and Resource Granularity – $0.01 per 1000 UsageRecords per month, AWS Cost Explorer API – $0.01 for each request, AWS Budgets Reports – $0.01 per report, AWS Budgets – First two action-enabled budgets are free per month (subsequent budgets will cost you $0.10 daily)

27. Xosphere

Xosphere helps AWS customers use Spot instances to optimize the costs associated with their CI/CD activities. It does this by automatically switching workloads from the more costly On-Demand instances to the most cost-effective Spot instances whenever they are available at a reasonable price.

Key Xosphere features include:

Xosphere Pricing: Per hour per Spot Instance

28. ProsperOps

ProsperOps offers a free savings analysis solution that pulls detailed data that would take a team at least a week to gather manually. You’ll see your spending over the past year, how effective you’ve been in using your savings instruments, the state of your commitment capacity planning, and how your results compare with your peers.

Key ProsperOps features include:

ProsperOps Pricing: Percentage of savings for Enterprise Plan

DevOps Collaboration And Agile Project Management Tools

Application lifecycle management tools enable you to monitor and manage their applications from conception to retirement. The following tools ensure optimal delivery cycles and smooth transitioning.

29. Jira

Atlassian’s Jira is a developer-centric, Agile project development platform. It lets your DevOps team plan, track, release, and generate reports of your CI/CD activities at any scale. Jira includes ready-to-use templates to get you started quicker with Kanban, Scrum, roadmaps, and bug-tracking workflows. It also integrates with virtually any DevOps work tool.

Key Jira features include:

Jira Pricing: Per user per month, starting Free with 10 users, Scrum, and Kanban boards support; Standard plan – $8.15/user/month for up to 35,000 users, Premium plan – $16/user/month for up to 35,000 users and advanced roadmaps; Enterprise – Custom pricing.

30. Asana

The Asana task management service helps teams coordinate and synchronize their work. These can range from everyday tasks to special projects. There are desktop, web, and mobile versions of Asana, all of which provide List, Board, and Timeline views of tasks. You can also integrate and connect Asana with other tools, including Microsoft Teams, Adobe Creative Cloud, Slack, Tableau, Microsoft Office 365, Power Bi, etc.

Key Asana features include:

Asana Pricing: Free plan, Premium plan – $10.99 per user per month (when billed annually), Business plan – $24.99 per user per month (when billed annually), Enterprise plan – Pricing provided upon request

31. AHA!

AHA! is a product management software suite that specializes in roadmap creation. You can create strategic business models, delegate tasks, as well as visualize, collaborate, and crowdsource ideas from customers and colleagues.

Key Aha! features include:

AHA! Pricing: Paid per user per month, depending on your plan; Ideas, Roadmap, or Develop.

32. Digital.ai

Formerly CollabNet VersionOne, Digital.ai is an “application Agile lifecycle management (ALM) solution”. It supports Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, XP, and hybrid development methods. Digital.ai also eases planning, tracking, and reporting across teams and software portfolios.

Key CollabNet VersionOne features include:

Digital.ai Pricing: Request pricing. Includes 30-day free trial

33. Trello

For enterprises seeking less convoluted or feature-heavy software lifecycle management tools, Trello is a great fit. This tool uses a visually appealing, easy-to-use user interface based on cards and boards. 

It also uses artificial intelligence to eliminate repetitive tasks and connects with DevOps tools like Slack, Dropbox, Confluence, Google Drive, and Evernote.

Key Trello features include:

Trello Pricing: Free plan, Standard plan – $6 per user per month for small teams, Premium plan – $12.5 per user per month for larger teams, Enterprise plan – $17.50 per user per month for large teams

Software Build And Configuration Management Tools

The following configuration management (CM) tools automate discovering, documenting, and tracking changes in software, hardware, and devices in your engineering environment.

34. Terraform

Terraform is an Infrastructure-as-code (IaS) solution. It enables you to configure and define data center infrastructure through HashiCorp’s custom configuration language or JSON. Terraform is compatible with a wide range of Cloud providers, including Azure, VMWare, and AWS.

If you’re subscribed to multiple cloud providers, Terraform is a great way to ensure that they have consistent configurations.

Key Terraform features include:

Terraform Pricing: Free up to 500 resources per month. Standard plan is $0.00014 per hour per resource. The Plus and Enterprise plans offer custom pricing upon request.

35. CFEngine

CFEngine is the most cut-and-dry configuration management software on this list. It was originally released in 1993 and has managed to keep up with software development trends. CFEngine features full CI/CD integration.

You can automate infrastructure configurations and manage your patches. It also features compliance reporting and infrastructure hardening.

Key CFEngine features include:

CFEngine Pricing: The Community Edition is Free. Pricing for the Enterprise Edition offers custom pricing.

36. RedHat Ansible

Red Hat’s Ansible is an automation platform used for configuration management as well as continuous deployments. Ansible enables you to keep your configurations consistent across all platforms. Whether your software is hosted on a physical server, cloud, virtual machine, or container, you can alter and manage your configurations from a single point.

Key Ansible features include:

Ansible Enterprise Pricing: Upon request (Standard or Premium)

37. Rudder

Rudder is an open-source, web-based configuration management tool. It enables continuous audits and enforcement. Rudder comprises a full-featured web-based interface. Since Rudder is open source, the bulk of its core features are free. However, there are additional features such as support that will require a paid subscription.

Key Rudder features include:

Rudder Pricing: Essential plan costs Euros 50 per node per year. Standard plan is Euros 80 per node per year and the Premium plan is Euros 100 per node per year.

38. RunDeck

RunDeck is an operations automation platform. It doesn’t just manage deployments but several processes in the CI/CD pipeline as well. It works for old legacy frameworks and new ones. Plus, its built-in governance and control features enable you to delegate a broad range of activities to your teammates. 

RunDeck is particularly suited for companies planning to migrate to the cloud.

Key RunDeck features include:

RunDeck Pricing: Community Edition is Free. Enterprise Edition pricing is availed upon request

39. Juju

Juju is an application modeling and deployment tool. It allows you to deploy software simultaneously on local servers, containers, and private and public cloud. What makes Juju unique is its approach. CI/CD pipelines for large companies can be complex. Juju uses what it calls “charms” to deploy infrastructure and code.

Key Juju features include:

Juju Pricing: Free (Open Source)

40. Apache Maven

Apache Maven is a software build automation and project management tool. It’s popular among the open-source and Java community. Maven enables you to build and deploy code in Scala, Ruby, Java, C#, Python, etc.

Key Apache Maven features include:

Apache Maven Pricing: Free and Open-source

41. Docker

Docker is a virtualization tool that allows enterprises to create cross-platform applications. It achieves this through the power of virtual containers which can be run on Linux, Windows, Mac OS, public, and private cloud. Docker’s SaaS offering is made up of three components — software, objects, and registries. 

Within its suite, it offers three core tools — Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Docker Volume.

Key Docker features include:

Docker Pricing: Free plan up to 200 image pulls per 6 hours, Pro plan – $7/user/month, Team plan – $11/user/month for up 100 users, Business plan – $24/user/month for unlimited users. 

42. Apache ANT

Apache Ant (“Another Neat Tool”) is the oldest tool on this list and can be considered a precursor to Maven. Just like Maven, it was written entirely in Java. ANT uses XML to define the code build process. While ANT is primarily a JAVA build tool, it can be used to define processes and build C++, C, and C# applications.

Key Apache Ant features include:

Apache Ant Pricing: Free (Open Source)

43. Packer by HashiCorp

HashiCorp Packer is one of the most well-rounded CI/CD pipeline build tools today. The software automates the creation of multiple machine images. It is also extensible and pluggable, so you can add builders, data sources, post-processors, and provisioners with plugins to add to its capabilities.

Key HashiCorp Packer features include:

HashiCorp Packer Pricing: Track 10 image buckets for free (HCP Community Edition). HCP Standard charges $0.010 per hour while HCP Plus is $0.030 per hour 

44. Grunt

Grunt is a JavaScript task automation tool. You can use it to build, test, and debug your code. You use Gruntfiles to configure tasks. Grunt is also extensible. It has a large library of community-created plugins. Working with Grunt as a novice user can be daunting. Luckily, Grunt has a thriving community and ecosystem that is ready to assist you with any queries.

Key Grunt features include:

Grunt Pricing: Free and Open-source

Cloud/IaaS Tools

If you’re not directly deploying your software onto your clients’ machines or giving them direct access to a server, you’re going to need a service to host it. You may have the best building tools and deployment software, but it doesn’t mean much if you don’t have the infrastructure or resources to get it to the final consumer. 

Here is a list of solutions you can consider.

45. Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services need no introduction. In 2023, AWS had a 33% share of the cloud services market, according to Synergy Research Group. You can build virtual servers with Amazon EC2, relational databases with Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, isolated cloud resources with Amazon VPC, and machine models with Amazon SageMaker. It also features a litany of analytics and app integration tools.

Key AWS features include:

AWS Pricing: Pay-as-you-go (For detailed pricing, visit the AWS pricing guide). For a comparison of the best cloud service provider, check this AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform guide.

46. Morpheus

Morpheus is a cloud management platform with a focus on cloud migration. It’s a self-service platform for hybrid cloud application orchestration. Morpheus empowers you to set up a private cloud and control public cloud access to team provisions on demand.

It’s persona-based so IT, security, and finance teams all get what they need to spend less time worrying about infrastructure and more time modernizing applications. It affords you the freedom to mix and match on-premise and public cloud technologies.

Key Morpheus features include:

Morpheus Pricing: Upon request

47. OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud framework. It provides horizontal scaling infrastructure for users and enterprises. Additionally, OpenStack helps with data storage, compute, and resource sharing. It also provides self-service administration that users can interact with directly. OpenStack is open-source, which makes it highly adaptable. This also saves you from possible vendor lock-in.

Key OpenStack features include:

OpenStack Pricing: Free for private cloud (Open Source), Public cloud is enterprise size-dependent (visit the price guide for more details)

48. Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Like AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a cloud service provider. It offers more than 100 cloud products and services under one roof. It also offers several tools for CI/CD teams, such as Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and Cloud Code. Each CI/CD tool has its best use case. 

Key Google Cloud Platform CI/CD tools:

GCP Pricing: Pay-as-you-go pricing (only pay for what you use). Visit Google Cloud pricing guide here for the latest prices. Or, check out our AWS vs GCP pricing guide here for a no-BS breakdown.

49. Dokku

Dokku is a great alternative to Heroku if you’re working with a stringent budget. It’s a miniaturized self-hosted platform as a service. You can deploy applications to it using Git. It’s easy to set up and has a wide variety of plugins that work out of the box. These plugins include Mongo, Postgres, and Redis. 

Key Dokku features include:

Dokku Pricing: Free and Open-source

Kubernetes CI/CD Tools

CI/CD tools for Kubernetes automate deployment and application management. The tools use a declarative approach, where the desired application state is stored in configuration files (often in version control). This approach enables consistent, reliable deployments across environments.

50. Argo CD

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Argo CD is a Kubernetes-native GitOps tool that syncs the desired application state from Git to the cluster. This ensures each deployment is auditable and aligned with Git for smoother management.

Argo CD key features include:

Argo CD pricing: Open-source (free), Starter – $29/month, Pro – $295/month, Pro Plus – $495/month, Enterprise – Custom pricing (via Akuity).

51. Flux CD

Flux CD is an open-source platform that follows GitOps principles for Kubernetes deployments. It monitors Git for configuration changes and applies them to keep clusters current.

Flux CD also integrates with Kubernetes to simplify updates, rollbacks, and version control.

Flux CD key features include:

Flux CD pricing: Open-source (free). For enterprise-grade features and support, ControlPlane offers subscription plans: CPE-1 Bundle – $1,250/month, CPE-10 Bundle – $6,250/month, CPE-25 Bundle – $10,500/month, CPE-100 Bundle – $42,000/month (via ControlPlane).

DevOps Testing Software

The following tools enable CI/CD teams to perform continuous testing more efficiently.

52. WebApp.io

Formerly LayerCI, WebApp is one of the newest products on this list. It was founded in 2018 and is geared towards full-stack development testing. What makes it somewhat unique is how it uses memory snapshotting technology for fast and efficient testing. But it offers more.

Key WebApp.io features include:

WebApp Pricing: Free for up to 3 members, Starter plan – $15 per member per month for up to 10 members, Team plan – $39 per member per month, Enterprise plan – Custom pricing.

53. Katalon

This testing automation platform delivers consistent, continuous, and scalable testing in one platform. Katalon generates and executes tests on virtually any operating system, browser, and device. It also works on both cloud and on-premise deployments. Katalon also integrates with Jira out-of-the-box and includes native integration with top CI tools like CircleCI, Bamboo, Jenkins, and Azure Pipelines.

Key Katalon features include:

Katalon Pricing: Free – Web, API, mobile, and desktop testing; the Premium plan is $208 per month for Katalan Studio Enterprise; the Enterprise plan offers custom pricing for enterprise-grade test automation with extended support.

Understand, Control, And Optimize Your CI/CD Costs The Smarter Way

A successful CI/CD strategy requires the right resources and tools. Yet, keeping track of everything, including data transfer costs, can be challenging. And it may be difficult to optimize your cloud spend if you don’t know what drives it.

To understand what drives your cloud costs, you need a platform like CloudZero. Consider this:

With CloudZero’s unit cost approach, your engineering team can see how their technical choices affect your bottomline. Plus CloudZero provides cost insights in their own language, such as Cost per Deployment, per Environment, per Service, per Feature, per Dev Team, etc.

We call it Engineering-Led Optimization (ELO). Having such granular cost visibility ensures you can build cost-effective solutions without accruing tech debt, struggling with budget overruns, and eating into your margins.

Additionally, CloudZero uses real-time cost anomaly detection. This ensures you get timely, noise-free, and context-rich alerts via Slack and email to prevent overspending.

Whether you are a large enterprise or a bubbling startup, CloudZero works at any scale, too.

With CloudZero, Drift has saved over $3 million in AWS costs. Recently, Neon has increased cost ownership by 700%. You want similar or better? to see CloudZero in action firsthand.