Buf Alternatives

B

Buildkite

moderate switch cost

CI/CD platform for running fast, secure, and scalable pipelines on your own infrastructure or hosted agents

Has free tier

C

CircleCI

moderate switch cost

Flexible usage-based CI/CD platform with Docker, Linux, macOS, Windows, and Arm support

Has free tier

D

Dagger

moderate switch cost

Programmable CI/CD engine that runs pipelines as code in containers

Has free tier

D

Depot

drop-in switch cost

Fast container builds and CI runners with persistent caching and GitHub Actions integration

E

Earthly

moderate switch cost

Open-source build framework with containerized, repeatable builds and optional cloud Satellites for remote execution

Has free tier

E

Expo

moderate switch cost

React Native development platform with cloud builds, OTA updates, CI/CD, edge hosting, and app store submission

Has free tier

G

GitHub Actions

moderate switch cost

CI/CD automation platform integrated with GitHub repositories for building, testing, and deploying code

Has free tier

G

GitLab CI

significant switch cost

Integrated CI/CD pipelines within the GitLab DevOps platform

Has free tier

G

GitLab

significant switch cost

DevSecOps platform with source control, CI/CD, security scanning, and project management

Has free tier

H

Harness

significant switch cost

AI-native software delivery platform with modular CI/CD, feature flags, and cloud cost management

Has free tier

N

Nx Cloud

moderate switch cost

Remote caching and distributed task execution for monorepos with CI optimization and AI integrations

Has free tier

S

Semaphore CI

moderate switch cost

Fast CI/CD pipeline platform with usage-based compute pricing

Has free tier

S

Spacelift

significant switch cost

Infrastructure orchestration platform for Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes

Has free tier

S

Speakeasy

moderate switch cost

SDK generation platform that creates idiomatic client libraries from OpenAPI specs

Has free tier

S

Stainless

moderate switch cost

SDK generation platform that creates idiomatic client libraries and documentation from OpenAPI specs

Has free tier

T

Travis CI

moderate switch cost

Continuous integration service with credit-based and unlimited build plans

Has free tier