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Develocity

About Develocity

Develocity provides a context engineering layer for AI-driven software delivery. The platform is built on universal toolchain and artifact observability. It captures data from inside build tools such as Maven, Gradle, npm, Python, Bazel, sbt, and Docker. It encodes build and test expertise as agent skills used by AI agents. The governance engine applies end-to-end lineage and policy to AI-generated software, while agents and efficiency engines manage build and test volume. It is used by organizations across industries and sizes.

Products

  • Build Scan: A record produced from every build.
  • Observability Platform: Ingests and records every build, test, and pipeline signal and serves live and historical views to the rest of the platform.
  • Flaky Tests Detection: Finds and quarantines flaky tests so they stop failing builds for non-real reasons.
  • Failure Analytics: Aggregates build and test failures across the organization to show where and why pipelines break.
  • MCP Servers: Exposes build and test data to AI agents over MCP so assistants can query it directly.
  • Predictive Test Selection: Runs only the tests a change can actually affect and skips the rest.

Used for

  • Detecting and quarantining flaky tests
  • Aggregating build and test failures by root cause
  • Querying build and test data through AI agents
  • Caching build and test results across teams
  • Reconstructing a verifiable history of a build or artifact for auditing

Who it is for

  • Built for platform engineering organizations.
  • Built for software engineering organizations.
  • Built for security organizations.
  • Used by organizations of all sizes and industries.

From Develocity's own website, read 2026-10-23. How we build listings.

How to evaluate CI/CD & Build Automation

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Develocity. It comes from our CI/CD Pipeline Platforms buyer guide.

25%
Pipeline-as-Code & Authoring
YAML/declarative pipeline definition, reusable components (GitLab CI/CD components, Actions reusable workflows, CircleCI orbs), matrix/parallel builds, DAG fan-out, templating and inheritance, dynamic pipelines, and how readable the config stays at scale
20%
Supply-Chain Security
Short-lived OIDC credentials to cloud (no long-lived keys), scoped/ephemeral secrets, SBOM generation, signed-artifact provenance and SLSA build levels (attestations, Sigstore/cosign), dependency and secret scanning, and tamper-resistant, immutable build logs
20%
Runner Model & Performance
Managed vs. self-hosted vs. hybrid runners, Linux/Windows/macOS and Arm/GPU support, build caching and artifact reuse, concurrency and queue behavior under load, autoscaling, and access to private networks and internal artifacts
15%
SCM & Ecosystem Integration
Depth of integration with your source-control platform, breadth of marketplace/plugin/orb ecosystem, container-registry and Kubernetes/Argo CD ties, API and webhook coverage, and how cleanly it spans multiple SCMs or clouds if your estate is mixed
10%
Governance, Compliance & Audit
RBAC and SSO/SAML/SCIM, environment approvals and protected deployments, policy-as-code and required checks, segregation of duties, audit logging and change history, and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / FedRAMP coverage for regulated delivery
10%
Cost Model & Operations
Per-user vs. consumption/credit vs. self-hosted economics at your real build volume, billing transparency, observability into pipeline duration and flakiness, AI assist for failure triage and config, and the maintenance burden the platform imposes on your team

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Quick Facts

gradle.com Pricing page
CategoryDevOps & Platform Engineering
SubcategoryCI/CD & Build Automation
DeploymentSaaS, Self-hosted
PricingPer committer, per year

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