# Apache Maven Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Apache Maven Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other IT Project Management products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/235382/RevSure-AI --- # Apache Maven Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on March 13, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Apache Maven ## What is Apache Maven? Maven is an open-source project management and comprehension software tool. Developed by the Apache Software Foundation, Maven manages builds, reporting, and documentation for software projects. It does this based on a central piece of information called a project object model (POM). Key features of Maven include dependency management, site generation for documentation, and streamlined build processes. The software helps users manage the entire life cycle for Java-based projects. ## What is Apache Maven used for? [IT Project Management](https://www.capterra.com/it-project-management-software/) Overall rating Based on 15 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Apache Maven?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=http://www.apache.org&name=Apache Maven) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Apache Maven 4.5 (15) VS. [4.4 (15,309)](https://www.capterra.com/p/19319/JIRA/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price $7.91 Per User, Per Month Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.3 (15) Ease Of Use 4.1 (14,352) Value For Money 4.2 (11) Value For Money 4.3 (9,760) Customer Service 4.0 (12) Customer Service 4.2 (9,516) ## Apache Maven alternatives [4.5 (762)](https://www.capterra.com/p/227102/JIRA-Service-Management/reviews/) Starting price $20.00 Per User, Per Month Highest Rated [4.5 (13,544)](https://www.capterra.com/p/184581/Asana-PM/reviews/) Starting price $10.99 Per User, Per Month [4.4 (2,883)](https://www.capterra.com/p/76113/Wrike/reviews/) Starting price $10.00 Per User, Per Month [4.5 (3,479)](https://www.capterra.com/p/79104/Smartsheet/reviews/) Starting price $12.00 Per User, Per Month [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/235382/Apache-Maven/alternatives/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. For IT Project Management 4.5 (13) 76.92% of 13 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Supports project management for IT professionals & teams Change Management 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions Issue Management 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Identify and respond to unexpected problems or failures (ie. "negative events") Reporting & Statistics 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns Task Management 3.0 (1) 0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Create, manage and track all task activities and progression Third-Party Integrations 3.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes Apache Maven 7 features Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions Supports project management for IT professionals & teams Identify and respond to unexpected problems or failures (ie. "negative events") Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns Create, manage and track all task activities and progression Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks Get Advice We can help you find the software with the features you need. Features 4.7 (15) 4.7 Based on 15 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.2 (11) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Value for money 4.2 (11) 4.2 Based on 11 reviews Connect with a Capterra advisor for a free 15-minute consultation Get a personalized software list aligned to your business needs with guidance from our expert advisors. Our team has helped 1 million+ businesses like yours find options that fit their needs. ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.0 (12) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.0 (12) 4.0 Based on 12 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.5 Based on 15 reviews Filter by rating 5(8) 4(7) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent AU Anonymous User Test Engineer Capital Markets ### "Maven : Double Edge Sword for Java Project " 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 13, 2024 Being a tester I have overall 5 plus years of experience in Automation with Maven, it is quite good to use from a tester perspective but when ever the chrome driver version changes, the latest needs to be update manually in the pom.xml file which then resolves the issue. If a new version is given it takes time to build the resources, downloading of dependency also requires time. Pros Easy to use, IT engineer will always like Maven as it has some standard which is same across industry. When ever new IT professional comes it makes the work easier to understand. It has dependency management, centralized repository, large community reach and cross platform support which makes it as a must use software. Cons As every software comes with limitation same is with Maven. The files downloaded are sometime large, every time when new version rolled out for any coding language it needs to be manually update in the pom.xml file. User must have knowledge on pom.xml file to use maven. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Serhat C. Senior Software Developer Banking ### "Best Project Management" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 August 18, 2023 I have developed numerous applications in the banking and e-commerce sectors. Pros It has many features that I like. The most important of theseThe most important features for me are that it removes the library dependency, that I can move my project in different IDEs, and that I can finally use the project base I prepared in another project. Finally, it accelerates my work. In other words, it allows me to focus on my work without drowning in libraries, paths and folders. Cons Frankly, I think it saves me speed and time, and I love all its features. I haven't seen any negative aspects so far. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Chief Architect Computer Software ### "A good automated build tool" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 May 29, 2023 We have use this tool for many years to build our application, so far the experience in using it is awesome. Pros It's automated tool, suitable for building an application without much difficulty. Cons You need to setup the various build environments before using it. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. RS Ramasundaram S. Programmer Information Technology and Services ### "Maven : Great build tool and easy to use" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 May 17, 2023 Pros Plugins and easy to apply the dependency while comparing to Gradle. Cons Not specific but need more shortcuts and reduce the structure for POM. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. VD Vojtech D. IT analyst and developer Information Technology and Services ### "The best build tool for Java projects" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 May 8, 2023 I have started using Maven when I was a student for my school projects. Now we are using it on big projects in my company. Pros Building your application with Maven is very simple. You only need to enter one command and Maven resolve all projects dependencies and download them automatically, run tests and create executable JAR (or WAR) file. It is widely used, so Maven has support in many IDEs. Cons Building of application takes more time than competing programs. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Software Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Maven Repository" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 December 17, 2022 So far, It has been a good experience using the maven project. I have been using this for my mobile automation testing Pros Maven is a Repository for java that automatically creates a java project. It is easy to use and maintain. Cons I don't like the fact that there is no option to auto-update plugins or other repositories that are installed using maven project Switched from [PyCharm](https://www.capterra.com/p/186625/PyCharm/) Switched from Python to Java Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. VS Vinicius S. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Review for Apache Maven" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 November 30, 2022 Maven manages all the processes (building, documentation, releasing and distribution) in project management, making the development team's work much easier. Pros Ease of installation, management and updating. The software is very easy to use, even for those who will use it for the first time, there is a very extensive documentation to help. Cons Many of today's integrated development environments require a plug-in to use Maven. This is perhaps not a downside of the Maven itself, but the way it integrates with other systems. Alternatives considered [Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/) Reasons for choosing Apache Maven Easy to use and train the team. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. DJ Deepanshu J. SMTS Computer Software ### "A reliable build tool which needs to up its game to save itself from competitors like gradle" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 November 6, 2022 Apache maven is kind of a necessary evil which is going to stay for long. Personally, I have never had any major issues while working with it. Pros When working with maven along with some nice IDE like IntelliJ, you can easily setup a maven based project. There are a bunch of maven plugins that are available and can be configured in your project's pom.xml to help you in many ways. For instance, if you want to create a simple jar which also uses some 3rd party dependencies and can serve as a minor utility if can be run directly on any machine, you can use maven-assembly-plugin to create one easily.In addition to all that, there is a very good community support for it as it has been there for quite some time and a lot of teams in a lot of organizations are using it. Cons There is some learning curve if someone wants to move to maven as their primary build tool. Also, it is slightly slower than gradle. More and more teams have migrated to gradle recently. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. BC Bogdan C. Tech Lead Computer Software ### "Repeatable and automated builds" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 8, 2022 Build automation and integration with testing frameworks and external tools makes Maven a dependable part of my toolset. Once your build configurations are stable you get dependable and repeatable builds Pros Maven's strength lies in dependency management and the huge ecosystem around it. Tooling and plugin coverage is extensive, it integrates with all Java IDEs and is natively supported by most build servers Cons Maven error reporting is pretty poor, you can sometimes loose a lot of time trying to narrow down a problem Reasons for choosing Apache Maven better integration, unit test and plugin support Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Software Engineer Computer Software ### "Build your war file with ease " 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 October 7, 2022 It's a great software as it is very light weight. All you need is pom.xml from the developer. We have automated it using jenkins Pros The build tool is the best and easiest way of creating jar file. It's installed in Linux which itself makes faster plus it has limited directory structure of four hence it does not require any expertise to understand this software. Cons As of now it's nothing of that sort but home directory ~/. repository is quite confusing if you do any other operation other than mvn clean package Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. 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