G2 Vendor Directory

Jenkins vs. Gradle Build Tool

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricJenkins

by The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)

Gradle Build Tool

by Develocity

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count57438
Ease of use8.38.6
Ease of setup8.38.3
Quality of support8.28.0
Meets requirements9.18.8
NPS59.89304861.111111
Small Business22.6%21.1%
Mid-Market36.8%18.4%
Enterprise40.6%60.5%
Total page views67180
Total LLM citations1,92296

Jenkins

The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Integrations
  • Plugins
  • Plugin Support
  • Automation
  • Flexibility

Gradle Build Tool

Gradle Build Tool is the most popular build tool for open source JVM projects on GitHub. It is downloaded on average more than 25 million times per month and has been counted in the Top 20 Most Popular Open Source Projects for IT by Techcrunch. Many popular projects have migrated from Maven to Gradle, with Spring Boot being a prominent example.

Pros