Bamboo vs Drone.io: What are the differences?

What is Bamboo? Tie automated builds, tests, and releases together in a single workflow. Focus on coding and count on Bamboo as your CI and build server! Create multi-stage build plans, set up triggers to start builds upon commits, and assign agents to your critical builds and deployments.

What is Drone.io? Open source continuous integration platform built on Docker. Drone is a hosted continuous integration service. It enables you to conveniently set up projects to automatically build, test, and deploy as you make changes to your code Drone integrates seamlessly with Github, Bitbucket and Google Code as well as third party services such as Heroku, Dotcloud, Google AppEngine and more..

Bamboo and Drone.io can be categorized as "Continuous Integration" tools.

"Integrates with other Atlassian tools" is the primary reason why developers consider Bamboo over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Drone.io.

Poll Everywhere, EventManager-Online.com, and StumbleUpon are some of the popular companies that use Bamboo, whereas Drone.io is used by Packet, Geocodio, and Clay.io. Bamboo has a broader approval, being mentioned in 62 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to Drone.io, which is listed in 47 company stacks and 20 developer stacks.