Choosing a CI/CD tool means balancing its capabilities with the current health and shipping activity of the project. This August 2026 snapshot uses the supplied ToolVitals scores for open/source-visible tools, alongside their health and shipping scores.
Only open/source-visible tools are included. The ordering follows ToolVitals score descending, then health and shipping for equal composite scores; GitHub stars are context only and do not affect rank.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | App Store Connect CLI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 98 | 6333 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Buildkite Agent | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 97 | 1049 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Dagger | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 97 | 16212 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Superplane | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 97 | 5580 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Jenkins | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 96 | 26514 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | PipeCD | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 96 | 1347 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | Zadig | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 96 | 97 | 3236 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | Distr | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 96 | 96 | 1218 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | werf | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 95 | 95 | 4720 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | ReARM | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 94 | 95 | 126 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | GoCD | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 93 | 94 | 7432 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | Fastlane | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 94 | 91 | 42042 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 13 | Gitness | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 92 | 88 | 38170 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 14 | Harness | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 92 | 88 | 38170 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 15 | jx | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 88 | 93 | 4691 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 16 | OVS CDS | OSI-approved OSS | BSD-3-Clause | 86 | 79 | 4837 | 83 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 17 | Devtron | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 85 | 76 | 5589 | 81 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 18 | gitmanager | OSI-approved OSS | Zlib | 77 | 69 | 7 | 74 | 🟢 Good |
| 19 | Wrkflw | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 42 | 24 | 3307 | 35 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 20 | Act | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 42 | 16 | 71685 | 32 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 21 | DevSpace | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 37 | 5 | 5157 | 24 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 22 | LiteOps | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 31 | 10 | 509 | 23 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 23 | orion-ops | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 2 | 0 | 517 | 1 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 24 | Choerodon | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 0 | 0 | 2395 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 25 | makes | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 0 | 0 | 491 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
App Store Connect CLI ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 98, health score of 98, and shipping score of 98. The supplied project description identifies it as a scriptable CLI for App Store Connect automation. Its labels are “OSI-approved OSS” and “MIT”.
Buildkite Agent ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 97 and matching health and shipping scores of 97. Its supplied description identifies it as an open-source toolkit for securely running build jobs on any device or network. Its labels are “OSI-approved OSS” and “MIT”.
Dagger ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 97 and matching health and shipping scores of 97. The supplied description presents it as an automation engine for building, testing, and shipping any codebase, running locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud. Its labels are “OSI-approved OSS” and “Apache-2.0”.
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