Open-source alternatives to CircleCI

CircleCI in the Developer tools category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

Harness Open Source

Developer platform with source control, CI/CD pipelines, development environments and artifact registries.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
38.5k
Deployment
Docker

Jenkins

Established automation server for building, testing and deploying code, with thousands of plug-ins.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
26.6k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
SAML, OIDC, LDAP

Dagger

Engine for building, testing and shipping code with pipelines written as code, locally or in CI.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
16.3k
Deployment
CLI

Woodpecker CI

Simple CI/CD engine that runs pipelines in containers and connects to Git services such as Gitea and GitHub.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
7.9k
Deployment
Docker

Concourse

Container-based automation system, mainly for CI/CD, with pipelines described in YAML.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
7.9k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
OIDC, SAML, LDAP

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