CI/CD & DevOps automation Rising

Depot

Fast container builds, caching and CI

Visit Depot

Depot offers remote container image builds, a shared build cache, GitHub Actions runners and its own CI engine. It lists SOC 2 Type II, SSO and audit logging.

  • Pipeline as code (not listed)
  • Parallel and cached builds
  • Managed build runners
  • Deployment automation (not listed)
  • Secrets management (not listed)
  • Approval gates (not listed)

Also includes

  • Container builds
  • Build analytics

From the vendor's own site. Not yet verified by SoftScout. A missing item may just mean we haven't confirmed it.

CI/CD & DevOps automation Rising

Blacksmith

Free plan· $0.0025/min 2–500+ people

Faster, cheaper runners for GitHub Actions

Key features

  • Parallel and cached builds
  • Managed build runners

CI/CD & DevOps automation Category leader

CircleCI

Free plan· $15/month 2–500+ people

Hosted CI/CD for build, test and deploy pipelines

Key features

  • Managed build runners

CI/CD & DevOps automation Category leader

GitHub Actions

Free plan 1–500+ people

CI/CD built into GitHub repositories

Key features

  • Pipeline as code
  • Managed build runners
  • Secrets management