G2 Vendor Directory

Apache Ant

by The Apache Software Foundation

24

Reviews

3.8

Star rating

#26

Rank in Build Automation

Pros and cons

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    Cons

      Traffic & LLM citations

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      Source: G2 review data

      Winning from

      Based on reviewers who said they switched from another product.

      1

      Eclipse

      1 switched

      Losing to

      Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from Apache Ant.

      1

      Gradle Build Tool

      1 switched
      2

      Apache Maven

      1 switched

      Key stats

      -100.0%

      21

      Small Business

      1

      Adoption by company size

      SegmentShare of reviews
      Small Business50.0%
      Mid-Market25.0%
      Enterprise25.0%

      Quarterly history

      QuarterReviewsStar rating
      2026 Q214.0

      Satisfaction ratings

      Ease of Use8.2
      Ease of Setup8.6
      Quality of Support7.1
      Meets Requirements8.7

      What reviewers say

      A Very Good Build Tool

      4.5

      “I liked the easy-to-use commands from the terminal. We can keep all the jar files needed to build a project in the lib folder because of this anyone looking into the lib folder can say what libraries are used to develop a particular project. It also provides automating the things”

      Technical Lead

      Build process is very easy

      4.5

      “Ant is an imperative build system, this means that it's very good at controlling the build process. You "tell" Ant what to do during the whole process, for example: "compile these files and put them in that folder". This is great for special projects where you want as much contro”

      Software Engineer

      One of the Best open source Build tool

      4.5

      “It's simple fast and works in any platform :) and its a open source too”

      Lead Software Developer