Developer Tools Review
Jenkins
Deep Dive Analysis
Jenkins is the long-standing open-source automation server. It runs anywhere, does almost anything through plugins, and costs nothing in licence fees; what it costs is maintenance.
Target Audience
Teams with infrastructure skills who need full control or cannot send code to a hosted service.
The Final Verdict
"Still the right answer when control matters more than convenience. For most small teams a hosted CI is less work."
Best Alternatives to Jenkins
What we checked
Public API
Offers a documented API you can build against.
Mobile app
Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.
Open source / self-hostable
Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.
SSO (SAML)
Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.
These are facts that can be checked, not opinions. Where we have not checked, it says so — we do not fill the gap with a guess.