Open Source Alternatives
Hosted continuous integration service for open source and private projects.
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Updated Mar 2026
| Jenkins | Woodpecker | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 15 | 12 |
| Overlap | 82% | 75% |
| Migration | moderate | trivial |
| License | MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Best for | Teams with DevOps | Small teams |
Ranked by Discovery Score
The original CI/CD automation server
If you need a CI/CD server and want something that has a plugin for literally everything — 1,800+ plugins covering every build tool, cloud provider, notification service, and deployment target imaginable — Jenkins is the original and still the most extensible. It's been around since 2011 and there isn't a workflow it can't handle.
Simple yet powerful CI/CD engine
If you want a CI/CD system — the thing that automatically tests and deploys your code when you push it — and you don't want to pay for GitHub Actions minutes or depend on a hosted service, Woodpecker is a self-hosted CI engine that's dead simple to set up. It's a community fork of Drone CI, after Drone went commercial.
Including when one of these alternatives ships a major update. Free.