| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · JavaScript Build Tools | 8.0 (#7) | 7.6 (#14) |
| Plugins | The Grunt ecosystem offers hundreds of plugins, and developers can publish their own Grunt plugins to npm. | Gulp plugins are Node Transform Streams that can change files’ names, metadata, or contents in a pipeline. |
| Purpose | Grunt automates repetitive development tasks such as minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting. | Gulp is a toolkit for automating slow or repetitive development workflows and composing them into build pipelines. |
| Security support | The project says it provides security and bug fixes for the latest version; previous versions are end-of-life and receive neither. | The repository security policy lists version 4.x.x as supported and versions below 4.0 as unsupported, and directs vulnerability reports to Tidelift. |