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Developer Tools software

26 products matching your filters. Each one described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

Showing 1–24 of 26

  • Ansible logo

    Ansible

    Simple, agentless IT automation

    Free
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • +1

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Bazel logo

    Bazel

    Multi-language build system with fast, correct incremental builds

    Free
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux

    3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Blacksmith logo

    Blacksmith

    2x faster GitHub Actions with 60% cost savings

    Free plan, then $0.004/minute
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • macOS

    3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Cloud Native Buildpacks logo

    Cloud Native Buildpacks

    Specification and tooling that turns source code into OCI images without Dockerfiles

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • +2
    9 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Dagger logo

    Dagger

    Programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipeline as containers on any runner

    Free plan, then $50/mo
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • +1
    8 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Eclipse IDE logo

    Eclipse IDE

    Open-source, extensible IDE historically centered on Java development

    Free
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux

    3 alternatives · 5 questions answered

  • Garden logo

    Garden

    Kubernetes development and testing automation with shared caching, now owned by Incredibuild

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • +1
    7 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • G

    GNU Emacs

    Extensible, customizable free text editor and computing environment

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows

    3 alternatives · 5 questions answered

  • Helix logo

    Helix

    Post-modern modal text editor for the terminal, written in Rust

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows

    2 alternatives · 5 questions answered

  • Hookdeck logo

    Hookdeck

    Event gateway that receives, queues, retries and replays inbound webhooks

    Free plan, then $39/mo
    • Web
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • +1
    10 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Namespace logo

    Namespace

    The dev platform for the next 100 billion commits

    Free plan, then $100/mo
    • Web
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • +1

    3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Nix logo

    Nix

    Purely functional package manager and the NixOS distribution built on it, for byte-reproducible environments

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    7 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Nixpacks logo

    Nixpacks

    Build system that turns a source directory into an OCI image, now in maintenance mode

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • API
    • +1

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Okteto logo

    Okteto

    Runs production-like development environments on your own Kubernetes cluster

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • +3
    9 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Ona (formerly Gitpod) logo

    Ona (formerly Gitpod)

    Cloud development environments repositioned as a control plane for software engineering agents

    Free plan, then $20/mo
    • Web
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • +1
    8 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Pants Build logo

    Pants Build

    Fast, scalable build system with intelligent defaults for Python and more

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows

    3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Penpot logo

    Penpot

    Open source design and prototyping platform

    Free
    • Web
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • +1

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • pnpm logo

    pnpm

    Fast, disk space efficient package manager

    Free
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • macOS

    2 alternatives · 5 questions answered

  • Restate logo

    Restate

    Durable execution engine in Rust with a free tier and low-latency workflows

    Free plan, then $300/mo
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Web
    10 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Rust logo

    Rust

    A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software

    Free
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • macOS

    4 alternatives · 2 questions answered

  • Soketi logo

    Soketi

    Self-hosted, Pusher-compatible WebSockets server with a stalled maintenance record

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    10 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Steampipe logo

    Steampipe

    Query cloud APIs, SaaS tools and code with SQL, with no extract or load step

    Free plan, then $49/mo
    • macOS
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • +2
    7 integrations

    2 alternatives · 5 questions answered

  • Tilt logo

    Tilt

    Local Kubernetes development loop that rebuilds and live-updates containers on save

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    8 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Visual Studio Code logo

    Visual Studio Code

    Code editing. Redefined.

    Free
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    • +1
    6 integrationsPart of Microsoft

    6 alternatives · 5 questions answered

Head to head

Developer Tools tools, compared

Pairings from this slice of the directory, each one checked by two reviewers who agreed a buyer would weigh the two against each other.

How this works

What you are looking at

Where does this data come from?

Pricing, platforms and feature lists are taken from each vendor's own pages. Limitations, answered questions and alternatives are researched separately and carry a source URL on the page that states them. Every product is described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

Why are there no star ratings?

Because we did not collect any. Softwr hosts no reviews, and a rating aggregated from somewhere else is not ours to publish as though it were an assessment we made. What is shown instead is what a tool costs, where it runs, and what it is concretely bad at.

How are alternatives chosen?

A researcher proposes them, then two independent reviewers judge one question each: would a buyer evaluating this product seriously consider that one instead. 225 of 1,841 candidates failed and were deleted, including a font inspector matched to a dark mode extension. Only pairings that survived both rounds are published.

Do vendors pay to appear here?

Not to be listed. A vendor can buy a place in the results on the home page, on a category listing or on the catalogue, and where they do the result carries a Sponsored label. Everything not carrying that label is ordered on the same criteria as everything else, and a paid place never changes where an unpaid one lands: the editorial order flows around it. Where a link earns a commission that is disclosed on the page carrying it.

How current is it?

Prices and plan limits move without notice, so treat anything with a number on it as a starting point and check the vendor before you buy. Where a claim could go stale it carries the source it came from, which is the fastest way to tell.