Every free ci/cd tier that clears our bar in 2026: 36 offers meet the criteria and 1 are demoted with a named reason. Verified pricing, recorded changes, and a published ranking method.

Best Free CI/CD Tools

Every free ci/cd tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-08.

36 offers meet our criteria for this category and none is distinguishable from the others under any signal we record. They are listed in an order that rotates daily; here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 546 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. See all 37 ci/cd offers →
1
Codemagic caution discovered 2026-09-03 reduced
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-09-03, codemagic.io/pricing reads: Single-user plan with unlimited number of applications and 500 free build minutes refilled every month. 30 days build history & artifact storage, 10GB per build cache storage. We are not publishing our stored Codemagic terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-03, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-09-03: The free tier now has 30 days of build history instead of 60, and 10GB cache per build instead of 3GB.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free tier now has 30 days of build history instead of 60, and 10GB cache per build instead of 3GB.
2
GitLab CI stable
Free

400 compute minutes/month, 10 GiB storage, 5 users. New accounts limited to 3 top-level groups

3
Bitrise stable
Hobby

Mobile CI/CD platform — free Hobby plan: 300 credits/month, 1 private app (unlimited public apps), 1 user, 5 concurrent builds, 90-minute build timeout. Supports iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native Best for personal projects and unlimited usage needs.

4
Appcircle stable
Starter

Mobile CI/CD and distribution — free Starter plan: 20 builds/month, 1 concurrent build, 30-minute max build time, unlimited apps, 1,000 CodePush updates/month, 100 testing distribution downloads/month Best for unlimited usage needs.

5
GitHub Actions caution discovered 2026-09-02 restructured
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-09-02, docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-actions/about-billing-for-github-actions reads: GitHub Actions usage is free for self-hosted runners and public repositories. For private repositories, each account receives a quota of free minutes, artifact storage, and cache storage. Usage beyond the included amounts is billed based on hourly usage of artifacts and caches, and minutes are calculated based on processing time. Different runner types have different per-minute costs. We are not publishing our stored GitHub Actions terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-02, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-09-02: The free tier for private repositories includes 2,000 minutes, 500MB artifact storage, and 10GB cache storage. The pricing page details specific per-minute costs for different runner types (Linux, Windows, macOS) and storage costs ($0.25/GB/month for shared storage, $0.07/GB for Actions cache and custom image storage), indicating that usage beyond the free quota is paid. This is not reflected in the current pricing page text.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier for private repositories includes 2,000 minutes, 500MB artifact storage, and 10GB cache storage. The pricing page details specific per-minute costs for different runner types (Linux, Windows, macOS) and storage costs ($0.25/GB/month for shared storage, $0.07/GB for Actions cache and custom image storage), indicating that usage beyond the free quota is paid. This is not reflected in the current pricing page text.
6
Always Free

Always Free: 2,500 build-minutes/month (e2-standard-2). Serverless CI/CD platform with support for Docker, Maven, Gradle, and custom builders

7
Free OSS

Free OSS (Apache 2.0). Community fork of Drone CI. Container-native CI/CD with YAML pipelines, multi-platform support, Gitea/Forgejo/GitHub/GitLab integration Best for open source projects.

8
Shipfox stable
Free

Run your GitHub actions 2x faster, 3.000 build minutes free each month.

9
Free

Preview every pull request, automated and on-demand. Free tier: $0/month, 5GB storage, 512MB RAM, no credit card required.

10
Mergify stable
Free

workflow automation and merge queue for GitHub — Free for public GitHub repositories

11
LocalOps stable
Free

Deploy your app on AWS/GCP/Azure in under 30 minutes. Setup standardised app environments on any cloud, which come with in-built continuous deployment automation and advanced observability. The free plan allows 3 users, 2 environments, 2 cloud connections, 5 services per environment, and 200 build-deploy minutes per month.

12
Free

CI/CD built into Bitbucket — 50 build minutes/month, 1 GB Git LFS, 5 users on free plan

13
deployhq.com stable
Free

Automated deployment platform — free plan: 3 projects with unlimited deployments. Git-based workflow with support for FTP/SFTP/SSH deployment targets Best for unlimited usage needs.

14
Community (Self-hosted)

Container-native CI/CD (now part of Harness) — free open-source edition (self-hosted): unlimited users and concurrency, YAML pipelines, Docker-based builds. Cloud available free for open-source projects Best for unlimited usage needs.

15
Free

RepoFlow Simplifies package management with support for npm, PyPI, Docker, Go, Helm, and more. Try it for free with 10GB storage, 10GB bandwidth, 100 packages, and unlimited users in the cloud, or self-hosted for personal use only. Best for personal projects and unlimited usage needs.

16
bytebase.com stable
Free

Database CI/CD and DevOps. Free under 20 users and ten database instances

17
Free

Terramate is an orchestration and management platform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, and Terragrunt. Free up to 2 users including all features.

18
Nx Cloud caution 2026-04-12 reduced
Free

Nx Cloud speeds up your monorepos on CI with features such as remote caching, distribution of tasks across machines and even automated splitting of your e2e test runs. It comes with a free Hobby plan with unlimited contributors and 50,000 credits included. Best for personal projects and open source projects and unlimited usage needs. Note — 2026-04-12: Credits reduced from 150,000 to 50,000/month, but contributor limit removed (now unlimited)

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-04-12limits reduced: Credits reduced from 150,000 to 50,000/month, but contributor limit removed (now unlimited)
19
Buddy stable
Free

CI/CD pipeline automation — free plan: 1 user, 1 concurrent pipeline, 300 pipeline GB-minutes/month, 1 GB pipeline cache, unlimited projects. Note: workspace frozen after 60 days of inactivity Best for unlimited usage needs.

20
Squash Labs caution discovered 2026-08-28 model change
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, squash.io reads: Start with a free credit of $40. See our pricing details for additional information. We are not publishing our stored Squash Labs terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The free tier now offers a $40 credit.

21
Semaphore CI stable
Community (Self-hosted)

CI/CD platform — free cloud plan: $15 credits/month (~2,000 Ubuntu build minutes), 20 concurrent jobs, YAML pipelines, secrets management. Self-hosted available at $0.0025/min. Cloud starts at $0.0075/min for Ubuntu

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-06). The pricing has been restructured. While a free tier with $15 credits (~2,000 Ubuntu x64 2-vCPU minutes) and 20 concurrent jobs still exists, the pricing for compute is now tiered based on CPU and OS (Ubuntu ARM, Ubuntu x64, MacOS) and starts at $0.003/min. Retracted 2026-09-06: the restructure is real and entirely on the paid side. semaphore.io/pricing, fetched 2026-09-06, still states every free figure our stored description carries — "Get $15 free credits per month (≈ 2,000 Ubuntu x64 2-vCPU minutes)", "Includes 20 concurrent jobs by default" and "Self-Hosted $0.0025 /min" — and lists "Ubuntu x64 $0.0075 /min 2vCPU", the cloud rate our description names. What moved is the paid compute table, which now prices by CPU and OS and opens at $0.003/min for Ubuntu ARM, below the rate it replaced. A change that leaves every free figure verbatim does not supersede the free terms.
22
Free

Private and public artifact repos for Maven, PyPi, NPM, Go Module, Nuget, APT, and RPM repositories. Free for public projects. Note: gemfury.com now redirects to fury.co

23
Free

Maven repository for JVM and Android projects on GitHub, free for public projects.

24
Free

CI/CD and GitOps platform — free plan: 120 builds/month, 1 concurrent pipeline. Docker-native build engine with built-in Docker registry

25
Free

Now RunJob — runmyjob.io redirects to runjob.eu, which serves the same product. Cloud runners for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. Free plan is EUR 0/month: 1 integration with a GitLab or GitHub organisation, 10 concurrent jobs, 12 vCPU and 32 GB of memory per job, 400 vCPU-minutes and 800 GB-minutes included monthly, usage-priced above that. GitHub runners work with organisation accounts only.

26
Buildkite caution discovered 2026-09-05 reduced
Personal

Superseded: As of 2026-09-05, buildkite.com/pricing reads: The Free Plan offers up to 5 users, up to 10 concurrent jobs, up to 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes per month, up to 250k test executions per month, 30 days build retention, and 50GB/month artifact storage. We are not publishing our stored Buildkite terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-05, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-09-05: The free plan now offers 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes/month and 250k test executions, up from 500 minutes and 50k executions. The free plan also includes 30 days build retention instead of 90. The open-source specific mention is gone.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free plan now offers 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes/month and 250k test executions, up from 500 minutes and 50k executions. The free plan also includes 30 days build retention instead of 90. The open-source specific mention is gone.
27
Free

1 GB Free private/public Maven Repository.

28
Free

CD service for Windows, free for Open Source Best for open source projects.

29
RepoForge stable
Free

Private cloud-hosted repository for Python, Debian, NPM packages and Docker registries. Free plan: 100MB storage, unlimited public packages, non-commercial use only. Best for unlimited usage needs.

30
Free

Mock-based RPM build service for Fedora and EL.

31
cirun.io stable
Free

Free for public GitHub repositories

32
Harness CI caution discovered 2026-08-28 reduced
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, harness.io/pricing reads: Free Plan is available for individual developers and small teams. It includes up to 60 concurrent pipeline executions, 250GB storage, up to 1 organization, up to 500 maximum users, up to 5 custom dashboards, unlimited templates, up to 5 custom roles, and policy as code. We are not publishing our stored Harness CI terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The free plan now has significantly reduced limits. Previously 2,000 build credits/month. The current page details limits for concurrent pipeline executions (up to 60), storage (250GB), and organizations (up to 1).

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free plan now has significantly reduced limits. Previously 2,000 build credits/month. The current page details limits for concurrent pipeline executions (up to 60), storage (250GB), and organizations (up to 1).
33
Free

Version control + build automation — 25 GB storage (5x increase Mar 2026), 100 GB egress (new Mar 2026), no seat charges (removed Mar 2026). Build: 200 Windows + 100 Mac minutes/month. Includes Plastic SCM for version control. No egress charges through April 2026

34
CircleCI stable
Free

30K credits/month (up to 6,000 build minutes on small Docker), 5 users, 30x concurrency, no credit card required

35
Free

Package build service for multiple distros (SUSE, EL, Fedora, Debian, etc.).

36
Terrateam caution discovered 2026-08-28 reduced
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, terrateam.io reads: Terrateam offers a free start with no credit card required. Features include cost estimation, policy enforcement, and self-service. We are not publishing our stored Terrateam terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-08-28: Doesn't confirm the original unlimited usage claim.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: Doesn't confirm the original unlimited usage claim.

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers are in this category but rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Free

Free for public GitHub repositories

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 4 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-07 — fetch failed), last confirmed 2026-04-12. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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36

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Stability Verified
Codemagic Free As of 2026-09-03, codemagic.io/pricing reads: Single-user plan with unlimited number of applications and 500 free build minutes… Our stored Codemagic terms are superseded and withheld. caution
discovered 2026-09-03 reduced
2026-08-19
GitLab CI Free 400 compute minutes/month, 10 GiB storage, 5 users. New accounts limited to 3 top-level groups stable 2026-09-04
Bitrise Hobby Mobile CI/CD platform — free Hobby plan: 300 credits/month, 1 private app (unlimited public apps), 1 user, 5 concurrent ... stable 2026-07-09
Appcircle Starter Mobile CI/CD and distribution — free Starter plan: 20 builds/month, 1 concurrent build, 30-minute max build time, unlimi... stable 2026-08-28
GitHub Actions Free As of 2026-09-02, docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-actions/about-billing-for-github-actions reads: GitHub Actions usage is free for self-hosted runners and public repositories… Our stored GitHub Actions terms are superseded and withheld. caution
discovered 2026-09-02 restructured
2026-08-14
Google Cloud Build Always Free Always Free: 2,500 build-minutes/month (e2-standard-2). Serverless CI/CD platform with support for Docker, Maven, Gradle... stable 2026-09-02
Woodpecker CI Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). Community fork of Drone CI. Container-native CI/CD with YAML pipelines, multi-platform support, G... 2026-08-21
Shipfox Free Run your GitHub actions 2x faster, 3.000 build minutes free each month. stable 2026-07-10
Tugboat Free Preview every pull request, automated and on-demand. Free tier: $0/month, 5GB storage, 512MB RAM, no credit card require... 2026-07-09
Mergify Free workflow automation and merge queue for GitHub — Free for public GitHub repositories stable 2026-07-09
LocalOps Free Deploy your app on AWS/GCP/Azure in under 30 minutes. Setup standardised app environments on any cloud, which come with ... stable 2026-07-08
Bitbucket Pipelines Free CI/CD built into Bitbucket — 50 build minutes/month, 1 GB Git LFS, 5 users on free plan stable 2026-09-03
deployhq.com Free Automated deployment platform — free plan: 3 projects with unlimited deployments. Git-based workflow with support for FT... stable 2026-07-09
Drone CI Community (Self-hosted) Container-native CI/CD (now part of Harness) — free open-source edition (self-hosted): unlimited users and concurrency, ... 2026-07-06
RepoFlow Free RepoFlow Simplifies package management with support for npm, PyPI, Docker, Go, Helm, and more. Try it for free with 10GB... 2026-07-08
bytebase.com Free Database CI/CD and DevOps. Free under 20 users and ten database instances stable 2026-07-10
Terramate Free Terramate is an orchestration and management platform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu... 2026-07-11
Nx Cloud Free Nx Cloud speeds up your monorepos on CI with features such as remote caching, distribution of tasks across machines and ... caution
2026-04-12 reduced
2026-07-10
Buddy Free CI/CD pipeline automation — free plan: 1 user, 1 concurrent pipeline, 300 pipeline GB-minutes/month, 1 GB pipeline cache... stable 2026-09-06
Squash Labs Free As of 2026-08-28, squash.io reads: Start with a free credit of $40. See our pricing details for additional information. Our stored Squash Labs terms are superseded and withheld. caution
discovered 2026-08-28 model change
2026-07-08
Semaphore CI Community (Self-hosted) CI/CD platform — free cloud plan: $15 credits/month (~2,000 Ubuntu build minutes), 20 concurrent jobs, YAML pipelines, s... stable 2026-07-05
Gemfury Free Private and public artifact repos for Maven, PyPi, NPM, Go Module, Nuget, APT, and RPM repositories. Free for public pro... 2026-07-09
jitpack.io Free Maven repository for JVM and Android projects on GitHub, free for public projects. 2026-07-07
Codefresh Free CI/CD and GitOps platform — free plan: 120 builds/month, 1 concurrent pipeline. Docker-native build engine with built-in... 2026-07-08
RunMyJob Free Now RunJob — runmyjob.io redirects to runjob.eu, which serves the same product. Cloud runners for GitHub Actions and Git... 2026-08-28
Buildkite Personal As of 2026-09-05, buildkite.com/pricing reads: The Free Plan offers up to 5 users, up to 10 concurrent jobs, up to 2,000 Linux vCPU… Our stored Buildkite terms are superseded and withheld. caution
discovered 2026-09-05 reduced
2026-08-23
repsy.io Free 1 GB Free private/public Maven Repository. 2026-07-07
appveyor.com Free CD service for Windows, free for Open Source 2026-07-16
RepoForge Free Private cloud-hosted repository for Python, Debian, NPM packages and Docker registries. Free plan: 100MB storage, unlimi... stable 2026-07-08
copr.fedorainfracloud.org Free Mock-based RPM build service for Fedora and EL. 2026-07-22
cirun.io Free Free for public GitHub repositories stable 2026-07-08
Harness CI Free As of 2026-08-28, harness.io/pricing reads: Free Plan is available for individual developers and small teams… Our stored Harness CI terms are superseded and withheld. caution
discovered 2026-08-28 reduced
2026-07-05
Unity DevOps Free Version control + build automation — 25 GB storage (5x increase Mar 2026), 100 GB egress (new Mar 2026), no seat charges... 2026-08-18
CircleCI Free 30K credits/month (up to 6,000 build minutes on small Docker), 5 users, 30x concurrency, no credit card required stable 2026-08-20
build.opensuse.org Free Package build service for multiple distros (SUSE, EL, Fedora, Debian, etc.). stable 2026-07-20
Terrateam Free As of 2026-08-28, terrateam.io reads: Terrateam offers a free start with no credit card required… Our stored Terrateam terms are superseded and withheld. caution
discovered 2026-08-28 reduced
2026-07-09

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