CI/CD platforms · Named, not rankedDrone CI
Drone CI is a CI/CD platform used to automate continuous integration and continuous delivery of software · drone.io ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Drone CI has 7.
Why models recommend it
“Self-Hosted Open-Source Options (e.g., Jenkins, Woodpecker CI, or Drone) – Best for ultra-low budgets.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Drone CI or Woodpecker CI *(Best Lightweight Self-Hosted Alternatives)*”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“consider air-gapped or open-source options like Drone or Woodpecker”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“put the operational burden entirely on you”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Drone CI, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 9 | View → | |
| 13 | 3 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Drone CI's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- busy development teams
- Free plan or trial
- Try free cloud offering
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 9 of the 13 answers that named Drone CI and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming Drone CI came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 27 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 9 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page drone.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.