Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Maven

The top open-source alternatives to Maven are SCons, Gradle, and Ninja Build. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

SCons Landing Page
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SCons

SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 15 social mentions
Gradle Landing Page
2

Gradle

Accelerate developer productivity. Gradle helps teams build, automate and deliver better software, faster. DocsExplore the documentation of Gradle. Find installation ..
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 38 social mentions
Ninja Build Landing Page
3

Ninja Build

Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 22 social mentions
Meson Landing Page
4

Meson

Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 43 social mentions
SBT Landing Page
5

SBT

SBT is a build tool for Scala, like Ant or Maven but with hieroglyphics.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 1 social mentions
Yup Landing Page
6

Yup

Tutoring platform for Math, Chemistry and Physics.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Online Tutoring #Education #Online Learning
Phing Landing Page
7

Phing

PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on ?Apache Ant.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #IT Automation
Bazel Landing Page
8

Bazel

Bazel is a tool that automates software builds and tests.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #DevOps Tools #JavaScript Package Manager 61 social mentions
Scrimba Landing Page
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Scrimba

Interactive coding screencasts created in an instant
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Online Learning #Education #Online Courses 143 social mentions
Jenkins Landing Page
10

Jenkins

Jenkins is an open-source continuous integration server with 300+ plugins to support all kinds of software development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 6 social mentions
Buildbot Landing Page
11

Buildbot

Python-based continuous integration testing framework
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment 9 social mentions
Grunt Landing Page
12

Grunt

The Grunt ecosystem is huge and it's growing every day.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#JS Build Tools #Front End Package Manager #Web Application Bundler 14 social mentions