Every free ci/cd tier that clears our bar in 2026: 17 offers meet the criteria and 17 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 16 of them: on 11 the page we cite did not answer, and on 5 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free CI/CD Tools

Every free ci/cd tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-11-14.

17 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 14 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and 2 a recorded widening. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. 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 513 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. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 38 ci/cd offers →
1
Buddy stable
Free

CI/CD pipeline automation — free plan: 1 seat, 2 concurrent pipeline runs, a $1 monthly usage credit for compute and storage, 1 GB pipeline cache.

  • A free account counts as active only if someone logs in to Buddy's web app. Pipeline runs triggered by commits or webhooks do not count. After a month without a login Buddy emails the owner. 30 days after that email the account is suspended and marked for deletion, and 60 days after it the account and its repositories are deleted. (From buddy.works/terms-of-service, read 2026-10-21.)
2
CircleCI stable
Free

The Free plan includes 30,000 credits/month, 5 active users, and options for different resource classes (Docker, Windows, Linux, Arm, macOS) with varying concurrency levels (30x for Docker, Linux, Arm, Windows VM, and macOS VM).

3
Bitrise stable
Hobby

Mobile CI/CD platform — free Hobby plan: 500 build minutes/month on Linux or macOS, 1 private app, unlimited public apps, unlimited team members, 1 free on-prem runner, 90-minute build timeout. Supports iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native

  • Bitrise's Hobby plan requires a verified credit card. Verification is a $0 authorization that is never charged, and a new account verifies the card before its first six builds run out. Without a card, Bitrise support can review an account by hand. (From bitrise.io/hobby-plan, read 2026-11-10.)
  • On the Hobby plan, builds past the 500 monthly minutes need Pay-As-You-Go switched on. Pay-As-You-Go charges each minute at 1.5 times the base rate, up to $15 a month. At the $15 cap, no new builds start until the next billing cycle. (From bitrise.io/pricing, read 2026-11-10.)
  • Creating more than one account requires Bitrise's permission. (From bitrise.io/legal/terms-of-service, read 2026-10-06.)
  • Apps may only be distributed through Bitrise for internal testing, such as quality assurance, never for general use. (From bitrise.io/legal/acceptable-use-policy, read 2026-10-06.)
  • Builds and logs are kept 200 days. Older builds are accessible via the API. Test results and non-installable artifacts: 90 days. Installable artifacts: 150 days. HTML reports: 7 days. Deleted artifacts cannot be recovered. (From docs.bitrise.io/en/bitrise-ci/run-and-analyze-builds/managing-build-files/artifact-retention-policy, read 2026-10-06.)
  • Anyone with the build URL can see a public project's build logs, and a public project cannot be made private again. (From docs.bitrise.io/en/bitrise-platform/projects/public-projects, read 2026-10-06.)
4
Jenkins stable
Free OSS

Free OSS (MIT). Self-hosted automation server — a self-contained Java program that runs out of the box on your own machine, with no hosted or paid plan offered by the project. Over 2,300 plugins; the leading open source automation server. jenkins.io/license/ carries the MIT License, which grants use free of charge. Read 2026-10-21.

5
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

6
Free

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

7
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

8
Semaphore CI stable
Free

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

9
Harness CI stable
Free

CI/CD platform — free plan: 2,000 Harness Cloud credits a month that expire monthly, 2,000 minutes on the 2-core Linux machine and 1,000 on the 4-core one. Harness Cloud on the Free plan needs a business email address and credit card validation. Builds on your own machine with the local runner have no limits. Paid plans have no published price.

10
Gemfury stable
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

11
Stategraph stable
Free

Stategraph, formerly Terrateam: terrateam.io redirects to stategraph.com. Infrastructure-as-code orchestration for GitHub and GitLab, with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi, CDKTF or any CLI. Free hosted plan: 3 users, 50 runs (plans or applies) a month, 1 concurrent worker, 30-day audit retention and community support, with every Orchestration feature, including SSO, RBAC, drift detection, cost estimation and OPA, Conftest and Checkov policies. No credit card. The self-hosted open-source edition (MPL-2.0) is free for up to 3 active users a month per GitHub or GitLab installation, with unlimited runs and concurrent workers.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: Terrateam's free tier went from unlimited users, runs, concurrency and private runners to 50 runs a month, 3 users and 1 private runner, between the Internet Archive's captures of its pricing page of 2026-06-16 and 2026-08-28. Source ↗
12
GitLab CI stable
Free

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

13
Nx Cloud stable
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. Its free Hobby plan includes 50,000 credits a month, 5 complimentary contributors and 10 concurrent CI connections.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-05-04 — limits reduced: Between the Internet Archive's captures of nx.dev/nx-cloud of 2026-04-23 and 2026-05-04, Nx Cloud's free Hobby plan began listing "5 complimentary contributors"; on 2026-04-23 the contributor allowance was listed on the Team plan only. Its 50,000 monthly credits did not change. Source ↗
14
Codemagic stable
Free

Mobile CI/CD platform — Single-user plan with unlimited number of applications and 500 free build minutes a month on macOS M2 machines, for personal accounts only; Linux and Windows builds get no free minutes, and teams get none. 30 days build history & artifact storage, 3GB per build cache storage.

15
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.

16
Buildkite stable
Personal

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.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: Between the Internet Archive's captures of 2026-06-14 and 2026-09-01, Buildkite replaced its $0 Personal plan (1 user, 3 concurrent jobs, 500 Linux vCPU minutes and 50k test executions a month, 90-day build retention) with a $0 Free plan: up to 5 users, 10 concurrent jobs, 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes and 250k test executions a month, and 30-day build retention. Source ↗
17
cirun.io stable
Free

Free for public GitHub repositories

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and 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

1 GB Free private/public Maven Repository. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-22, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-22, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
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. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-13, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 9 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-13 — timeout), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
deployhq.com stable
Free

Automated deployment platform — free plan: 1 project, 3 deployments per day, 5 servers, 1 concurrent deployment, 30 build minutes, 1 user. Unlimited deployments and 3 projects start at $9/mo (Solo). Open-source projects can ask for a free account with unlimited deployments. Git-based workflow with support for FTP/SFTP/SSH deployment targets

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-25, found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Private cloud-hosted repository for Python, Debian, NPM packages and Docker registries. Free plan: 100MB storage, unlimited public packages. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-26, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and refusing a change is not a confirmation of the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • RepoForge's Free plan is for open-source projects, not for commercial use. (From repoforge.io/pricing, read 2026-10-04.)
  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-26, found a change we then refused to record, because it named no figure that had moved. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Shipfox stable
Free

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

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 4 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-08 — The pricing page text contains no pricing tiers, free-tier limits, build-minute allowances, or plan details for Shipfox Cloud or any other edition, so the stored Free tier (3,000 build minutes/month, 2x faster GitHub Actions) cannot be verified against it.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

workflow automation and merge queue for GitHub — Free for public GitHub repositories. When we read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-10-23, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, and we have read it again since, on 2026-11-13, without confirming them, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-13 — The pricing page text contains no explicit free-tier details, plan limits, or pricing terms for public GitHub repositories, so the stored deal info cannot be verified against it.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-10, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
bytebase.com stable
Free

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

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 4 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-08 — The pricing page text does not mention the free tier, its 20-user limit, or the ten-database-instance limit, so the stored deal info cannot be verified against it.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Free CI/CD for public repos (standard runners, unlimited minutes). Private repos on GitHub Free: $12 USD of included compute a month, which is 2,000 minutes on a standard Linux runner ($0.006/min), 1,200 on Windows ($0.010/min) or about 193 on macOS ($0.062/min). GitHub's billing docs gave the allowance as 2,000 minutes before a revision published on October 28, 2026. 500 MB artifact storage, 10 GB cache per repo. Self-hosted runners remain free — planned $0.002/min charge was postponed indefinitely after community backlash (March 2026). Hosted runner prices reduced 39% (Jan 2026)

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-11-09, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Maven repository for JVM and Android projects on GitHub, free for public projects. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-10, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Package build service for multiple distros (SUSE, EL, Fedora, Debian, etc.). The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-29, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-29, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-10, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

CD service for Windows, free for Open Source. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
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. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-11-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 5 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-10 — the page never names RunMyJob and is not served from its domain), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-10, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Mock-based RPM build service for Fedora and EL. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-10-13, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-10-13 — the page never names copr.fedorainfracloud.org, on a domain that carries its name), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Not on our ranked list

4 of the 38 offers matching this query are not on our ranked list — 3 have ended, 1 we have not been able to confirm in the last 180 days. Here is how that order is derived.

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.
date
2026-11-14
query_key
best-of:CI/CD
seed
c86f5b5c8ce0d372bf16c5434f9ba89d852a969a6eacf4aad786012eced306b3
tie_count
17

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
Buddy Free CI/CD pipeline automation — free plan: 1 seat, 2 concurrent pipeline runs, a $1 monthly usage credit for compute and sto... stable 2026-11-11
CircleCI Free The Free plan includes 30,000 credits/month, 5 active users, and options for different resource classes (Docker, Windows...
read found the page different · 2026-10-28
improving
discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknown
2026-10-28 / 2026-08-20
Bitrise Hobby Mobile CI/CD platform — free Hobby plan: 500 build minutes/month on Linux or macOS, 1 private app, unlimited public apps... improving
effective 2026-11-09
2026-11-11
Jenkins Free OSS Free OSS (MIT). Self-hosted automation server — a self-contained Java program that runs out of the box on your own machi... stable 2026-11-03
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 2026-10-28
Bitbucket Pipelines Free CI/CD built into Bitbucket — 50 build minutes/month, 1 GB Git LFS, 5 users on free plan stable 2026-11-05
Appcircle Starter Mobile CI/CD and distribution — free Starter plan: 20 builds/month, 1 concurrent build, 30-minute max build time, unlimi... stable 2026-11-10
Semaphore CI Free CI/CD platform — free cloud plan: $15 credits/month (~2,000 Ubuntu build minutes), 20 concurrent jobs, YAML pipelines, s...
read found the page different · 2026-11-10
stable 2026-11-10 / 2026-10-20
Harness CI Free CI/CD platform — free plan: 2,000 Harness Cloud credits a month that expire monthly, 2,000 minutes on the 2-core Linux m... stable 2026-11-11 / 2026-10-07
Gemfury Free Private and public artifact repos for Maven, PyPi, NPM, Go Module, Nuget, APT, and RPM repositories. Free for public pro... stable 2026-11-03
Stategraph Free Stategraph, formerly Terrateam: terrateam.io redirects to stategraph.com. Infrastructure-as-code orchestration for GitHu... stable 2026-10-25
GitLab CI Free 400 compute minutes/month, 10 GiB storage, 5 users. New accounts limited to 3 top-level groups stable 2026-11-05
Nx Cloud Free Nx Cloud speeds up your monorepos on CI with features such as remote caching, distribution of tasks across machines and ... watch
effective 2026-05-04
2026-10-25
Codemagic Free Mobile CI/CD platform — Single-user plan with unlimited number of applications and 500 free build minutes a month on mac... stable 2026-11-05
LocalOps Free Deploy your app on AWS/GCP/Azure in under 30 minutes. Setup standardised app environments on any cloud, which come with ... stable 2026-11-01
Buildkite Personal 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 ... stable 2026-11-08
cirun.io Free Free for public GitHub repositories stable 2026-11-11

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free ci/cd tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 17 free ci/cd offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free ci/cd tiers have held their terms?

17 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 14 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and 2 a recorded widening. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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