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.
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.
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).
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
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.
Always Free: 2,500 build-minutes/month (e2-standard-2). Serverless CI/CD platform with support for Docker, Maven, Gradle, and custom builders
CI/CD built into Bitbucket — 50 build minutes/month, 1 GB Git LFS, 5 users on free plan
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
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
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.
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
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.
400 compute minutes/month, 10 GiB storage, 5 users. New accounts limited to 3 top-level groups
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Run your GitHub actions 2x faster, 3.000 build minutes free each month.
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.
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.
Database CI/CD and DevOps. Free under 20 users and ten database instances
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| 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 |
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.
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.