What is Drone?
Self-service continuous integration platform for automating software build and testing with Docker-containerized pipelines.
Drone pricing
We don't have Drone's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Drone does
The capabilities that matter for ci/cd tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Self-hosted runners
- ✓
- Config-as-code pipelines
- ✓
- Matrix / parallel builds
- -
- Container-native builds
- ✓
- Build caching
- -
- Secrets management
- ✓
- Deployment environments & approvals
- ✓
- Reusable actions / marketplace
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (9)
Independently observed- GitHub
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS S3
- AWS ECR
- Slack
- Netlify
Drone alternatives
Other ci/cd tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Drone, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 14.00 | 1136.1 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 4.00 | 320.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 29 | 8.00 | 230.1 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 6.00 | 150.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 26.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","marketplace":true,"yaml_pipelines":true,"container_native":true,"secrets_management":true,"deploy_environments":true,"self_hosted_runners":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 9 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |