--- title: Gradle Build Tool Reviews meta\_title: 'Gradle Build Tool Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 39 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Gradle Build Tool works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 39 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # Gradle Build Tool Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Gradle Build Tool but has limited features. Are you part of the Gradle Build Tool team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Gradle Build Tool is the most popular build tool for open source JVM projects on GitHub. It is downloaded on average more than 25 million times per month and has been counted in the Top 20 Most Popular Open Source Projects for IT by Techcrunch. Many popular projects have migrated from Maven to Gradle, with Spring Boot being a prominent example. * * * Seller [Develocity](https://www.g2.com/sellers/develocity) Discussions [Gradle Build Tool Community](https://www.g2.com/products/gradle-build-tool/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Justin Reock Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/gradle-build-tool/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Jenkins](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jenkins") Jenkins 4.4/5(573) ](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) [ ![Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform") Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 4.6/5(377) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) [ ![Bamboo](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bamboo") Bamboo 4.1/5(69) ](https://www.g2.com/products/bamboo/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/gradle-build-tool/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 39 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/13/2026 "Powerful Open-Source Build Automation with Multi-Language Support" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? The best about Gradle build is it is an open-source build automation tool used to compile, test, package, and deploy applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? Initial build of Gradle is very huge because we need to build complex scripts initially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? The problem that Gradle solving for me is execution of my application such as compiling code, execution of it and creation of artifacts out of that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness") UH Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/24/2023 "So standard and unlikely to break I haven't had to look into it until today" 5/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? So standard and unlikely to break I haven't had to look into it until today Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? it broke today, forcing me to look into it. Normally it is so unlikely to break I haven't had to look into it until today Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? Android app builds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Balaji K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Balaji K.") BK Balaji K. Principle Member of Technical Staff Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/7/2022 "Fast, powerful build tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? Gradle is a very powerful build tool in circumstances, especially where multi-level projects need to be developed. The underlying DSL language makes it easier to configure and use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? Nothing much on the negative side. One problem on earlier days was the lag of documentation. But it is no more a valid point nowadays, It is considered the latest than old traditional build tools like ant, maven etc., Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool: Highly recommend espcialy if you are developing cloud native, CI/CD integrated environement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? Building applications is one of the pain point in application development life cycle. Gradle build tool helps to overcome the difficulty of making application builds. It also helps in CI/CD integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/24/2022 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic CH Chris H. Director Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/19/2022 "Gradle Enterprise and Gradle Review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? The ability for the tool to handle builds for any language out there. Allows a single build tool for consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? The flexiblity introduces multiple ways to handle different things like uploading artifacts. Would love to see some more standards there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool: It's worth the effort to do but make sure you have buy in from your development team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? Reduces the complexity from maven and multiple pom files to a single build file. Also allows for consistency across projects no matter the architecture and languages used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Tiffany L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tiffany L.") TL Tiffany L. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/10/2022 "Gradle is fantastic for java builds" 4/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? How simple it is to write a script in Gradle and it does everything behind the scenes. You only have to define the dependencies in a build file, setup the files in a format that Gradle will recognize and run the build command and bam you have a build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? It isn't versatile. It is very difficult to build other languages with Gradle. It is really Java specific. If you do want to build other programming languages with grade be prepared for complex build scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool: Seriously consider this when building using Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? The ability to have simple maintainable build scripts. It is easy to get started and out of the box tool which lowers the learning curve. It has built in commands for both building and testing Java code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ken Y.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ken Y.") KY Ken Y. Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/7/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Better than Ant/Maven, slower than Bazel" 4/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? Gradle is a much better build system than Ant on Android for folks who remember that 🙂 It's also much better than writing Maven pom.xml files for the same reason of no XML to wade through. You can write your own DSL and plugins to make it even more expressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? The Kotlin version built into the DSL never gets updated quickly enough, so you often write kotlin DSL in an older version of kotlin than your project code. Gradle builds can be slow when you get over 500-1000 modules. Caching is not as fast as Bazel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? Using Gradle on a very large Android project with 650+ modules. The Kotlin DSL with custom plugins makes build files much more expressive. It's also easy to set up custom tasks and walk the dependency tree. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Justin Reock of Gradle Build Tool [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/gradle-build-tool-review-5183993/official_response/edit) Thanks Ken, we really appreciate the review, and we're always working to improve! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/4/2022 "A powerful tool for managing your builds" 5/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? Building a project scales up in complexity very quickly. While small Hello World applications might be easy to manage, large multifaceted projects require a robust tool. Gradle is that tool. It handles a lot of the complications of building, including dependency management, configuring toolchains, and integrating custom build logic (just to highlight a few of the things that it does). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? Complexity. Gradle has a very steep learning curve, and even after using it for over 8 years, there's is still more for me to learn. It is a very broad tool, and a lot of components are iterated on rapidly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Gradle for all of our JVM builds, but it has been the most beneficial for our Android app. Android has a very complicated toolchain, but Gradle significantly simplifies it. It helps that Gradle is the officially supported build tool of Android. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/4/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Danny T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Danny T.") DT Danny T. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/7/2021 "Best in class build automation tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? Gradle's work avoidance, caching, incremental support are capabilities unmatched by many tools. It's dependency management features are unparalleled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? Gradle is JVM centric so it can be difficult to drive adoption with Polyglot teams with bias against Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? Gradle builds our over 3,500 Java projects supporting more than 900 engineers. We could not be successful without the flexibility of its dependency management features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Justin Reock of Gradle Build Tool [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/gradle-build-tool-review-5183803/official_response/edit) Thanks so much, Danny, we appreciate your support as always! Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Dwayne E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dwayne E.") DE Dwayne E. Senior System Administrator Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/14/2021 "Great tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? Fast build of android application that I use for DJI drones Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? I am still testing the tool with some app that I am working on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool: Yes, I would recommend it to others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? No, problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Justin Reock of Gradle Build Tool [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/gradle-build-tool-review-5203809/official_response/edit) Thanks Dwayne for the review, sounds like very interesting work! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/8/2021 "Gradle ftw!" 5/5 What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool? The simplicity of having the build tool do all the work for you :-). In particular, the build scans help with teammate debugging sessions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool? With Android, sometimes the builds can be slow, but this isn't always Gradles fault, though it looks that way! :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you? Building Android projects. Benefits come from the custom plugin creation and not having to repeat yourself. We're more productive because of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Justin Reock of Gradle Build Tool [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/gradle-build-tool-review-5185180/official_response/edit) Thanks so much for the feedback and support, Gradle users ftw too! :) Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about Gradle Build Tool? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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