Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Bazel is described as 'Open-source build and test tool similar to Make, Maven, and Gradle. It uses a human-readable, high-level build language. Bazel supports projects in multiple languages and builds outputs for multiple platforms' and is a Build System in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Bazel for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Bazel alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Bazel are GNU Make, Maven, Gradle and Ant.


xmake is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Bazel.
Werk is a command runner and simplistic build system. It is intended to supplant Make in projects that need a simple build tool adjacent to a main build system, such as Cargo or NPM.
The easiest build framework you will ever use. Just answer three simple questions (What is the name of your solution? What is the path to source control? What is your company name?) and you are building.


Reggae is a (meta) build system with multiple front (D, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua) and backends (make, ninja, tup, custom). This is alpha software, only tested on Linux and likely to have breaking changes made.
A modern build, configuration management, ci/cd tool for automation Flexible data modelling, design of composition, OO and test driven Comprehensive workflow orchestration: full support all type of condition, loop(recursive), break, assert.


Simple script to make Your coding more efficient by executing long commands using short aliases from local Yakefile.

Next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations.



Nx is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Bazel.
setup - A simple Bash library for setting up a directory structure using Makefile-like definitions.
Powerfull and rich featured pure Java build and automation tool. Jerkar includes among others, dependency management, repository publication, super-easy build editing and depbugging.