Choosing CI/CD tools means comparing projects that cover different parts of build, test, release, and deployment automation without losing sight of current project signals. For October 2026, the supplied ToolVitals records provide the comparison: descriptions, ToolVitals scores, health and shipping scores, openness and license labels, and GitHub star counts.
This ranking includes open/source-visible tools only. Tools are ordered by ToolVitals score descending, with health and shipping used for equal scores; GitHub stars are context only and do not determine rank.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | App Store Connect CLI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 98 | 7826 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Dagger | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 98 | 16336 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Buildkite Agent | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 97 | 1095 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Jenkins | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 96 | 26648 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Distr | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 96 | 96 | 1235 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | werf | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 96 | 96 | 4736 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | PipeCD | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 96 | 94 | 1364 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | Superplane | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 96 | 94 | 7708 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | Fastlane | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 93 | 42244 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | Zadig | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 94 | 93 | 3251 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | ReARM | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 93 | 92 | 128 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | jx | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 92 | 92 | 4690 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 13 | Devtron | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 91 | 87 | 5614 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 14 | GoCD | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 90 | 90 | 7428 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 15 | Gitness | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 91 | 85 | 38529 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 16 | Harness | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 91 | 85 | 38529 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 17 | OVS CDS | OSI-approved OSS | BSD-3-Clause | 89 | 83 | 4847 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 18 | gitmanager | OSI-approved OSS | Zlib | 73 | 62 | 7 | 69 | 🟢 Good |
| 19 | Wrkflw | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 46 | 31 | 3331 | 40 | 🟡 Fair |
| 20 | DevSpace | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 35 | 3 | 5198 | 22 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 21 | Act | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 24 | 4 | 72335 | 16 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 22 | LiteOps | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 16 | 0 | 510 | 9 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 23 | orion-ops | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 1 | 0 | 521 | 1 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 24 | Choerodon | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 0 | 0 | 2399 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 25 | makes | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 0 | 0 | 490 | 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, and is marked 🟢 Excellent. Its description is tightly focused on scriptable App Store Connect automation. The record labels it OSI-approved OSS under the MIT license; its 7,826 GitHub stars are context only.
Dagger ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 97, a health score of 97, and a shipping score of 98, and is marked 🟢 Excellent. Its description covers building, testing, and shipping any codebase locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud, making cross-environment automation its key distinction in this ranking. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS under Apache-2.0; its 16,336 GitHub stars are context only.
Buildkite Agent ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 97, a health score of 97, and a shipping score of 97, and is marked 🟢 Excellent. Its description emphasizes securely running build jobs on any device or network, giving the tool a clear focus on distributed build execution. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS under the MIT license; its 1,095 GitHub stars are context only.
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