Cake
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Cake, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Cake's own pricing page, checked 29 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Cake | Free | Free and open source, including for commercial use |
The facts
Each one read from Cake's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Built-in tools
- Cake supports MSBuild, .NET CLI, MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, NuGet, ILMerge, WiX, and SignTool out of the box.checked 29 Sep 2026
- CI integrations
- Documented build system integrations include Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bitbucket Pipelines, and RWX.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Community support
- The community page points users to discussion and getting-help resources and reports several hundred contributors.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Editor integrations
- The site lists integrations for Atom, JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio, including features such as IntelliSense for some editors.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Extensions
- The extensions directory lists addins and modules that extend Cake, and says extension issues should be directed to each extension's author.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Operating systems
- Cake runs on modern .NET and is available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Runtime requirement
- The Cake .NET Tool NuGet package requires .NET 8 or newer.checked 29 Sep 2026
- SDK capabilities
- Cake.Sdk supports native .NET CLI publishing of self-contained executables and containers.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Security-related feature
- Cake 6.3.0 introduced GitHub Actions OIDC trusted publishing that exchanges an OIDC token for a short-lived NuGet.org API key, avoiding a long-lived publishing secret.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Support lifecycle
- Cake supports the current major release with bug fixes to its latest version, and ends support for a major release when the next major version is published.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Ways to write builds
- Build scripts can be written as Cake scripts, Cake.Sdk projects or single-file apps, or Cake Frosting console applications.checked 29 Sep 2026
- What it does
- Cake is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for compiling code, copying files and folders, running tests, compressing files, and building NuGet packages.checked 29 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2014checked 28 Sep 2026
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