Every free ci/cd tier that clears our bar in 2026: 21 offers meet the criteria and 16 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 22 of them: on 15 the page we cite did not answer, and on 7 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 2026-09-30.

21 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 15 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, 2 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 3. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. 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 476 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
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 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

2
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. Best for personal projects and open source projects. Note — 2026-05-13: Between captures of 2026-04-13 and 2026-05-13, Nx Cloud's free Hobby plan began listing "5 complimentary contributors". Its 50,000 monthly credits did not change. Its FAQ had said the plan was limited only by credits, whatever the team size. Source ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-05-13 — limits reduced: Between captures of 2026-04-13 and 2026-05-13, Nx Cloud's free Hobby plan began listing "5 complimentary contributors". Its 50,000 monthly credits did not change. Its FAQ had said the plan was limited only by credits, whatever the team size. Source ↗
3
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.

4
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.

5
Free

Free CI/CD for public repos (unlimited minutes). Private repos: 2,000 min/mo GitHub-hosted runners, 500 MB artifact storage, 10 GB cache/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) Best for unlimited usage needs.

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
Tugboat stable
Free

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

8
Free

Free for public GitHub repositories. When we read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-09-10, we found no earlier figure of ours for the page to have narrowed, and we have read it again since, on 2026-09-28, without confirming the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

9
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.

10
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 ↗
11
Harness CI stable
Free

CI/CD platform — 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. Best for startups and unlimited usage needs.

12
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

13
Codemagic stable
Free

Mobile CI/CD platform — 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. Best for unlimited usage needs.

14
GitLab CI stable
Free

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

15
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).

16
Free

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

17
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 Best for unlimited usage needs.

18
Terrateam stable
Free

Terrateam offers a free start with no credit card required. Features include cost estimation, policy enforcement, and self-service.

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 ↗
19
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.

20
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.

21
Free

workflow automation and merge queue for GitHub — Free for public GitHub repositories. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-12, we could read no amount, tier or rate on the page, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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

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 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 2 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-10 — 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
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: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-09-19 — The pricing page does not explicitly mention a free tier or limits on users/database instances. It focuses on features like Database Change Management, Access Control, and Compliance, and highlights integrations and case studies. There is no clear indication of a free tier with the stated limits.), 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

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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, 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

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 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, 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 (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 1,900 plugins; the leading open source automation server. jenkins.io/license/ carries the MIT License, which grants use free of charge. Read 2026-09-19. Best 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 2026-09-19, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-09-19 — the page names Jenkins but states no amount, tier or rate we can read), 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

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 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, 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 Best 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 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, 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 Best 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 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, 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

Free for public GitHub repositories. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-28, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 7 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-28 — fetch failed), 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

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 2026-09-15, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-15, 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
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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, 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

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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, 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 2026-09-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 2 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-14 — 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
Shipfox stable
Free

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

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-09-19 — The provided text does not contain any pricing or free tier information. It appears to be documentation related to using Shipfox with GitHub Actions and Jira, but does not mention the 3,000 build minutes free each month or confirm the existence of a free tier.), 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

Mock-based RPM build service for Fedora and EL. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, 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

CI/CD and GitOps platform — free plan: 120 builds/month, 1 concurrent pipeline. Docker-native build engine with built-in Docker registry. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-05, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-09-05 — the page never names Codefresh, 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

One of the 38 offers matching this query is not on our ranked list — 1 has ended. 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
2026-09-30
query_key
best-of:CI/CD
seed
1e80b19112ce76dc8099b5aa30cc96a466de587379e99df97cbe711c0b1a419e
tie_count
21

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
repsy.io Free 1 GB Free private/public Maven Repository. not published
page states no amount · 2026-09-10
2026-09-10 / 2026-07-07
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 2026-05-13
2026-09-14
LocalOps Free Deploy your app on AWS/GCP/Azure in under 30 minutes. Setup standardised app environments on any cloud, which come with ... stable 2026-09-19
RepoForge Free Private cloud-hosted repository for Python, Debian, NPM packages and Docker registries. Free plan: 100MB storage, unlimi... stable 2026-09-10 / 2026-07-08
GitHub Actions Free Free CI/CD for public repos (unlimited minutes). Private repos: 2,000 min/mo GitHub-hosted runners, 500 MB artifact stor... improving
effective 2026-01-01
2026-09-16 / 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 2026-09-21
Tugboat Free Preview every pull request, automated and on-demand. Free tier: $0/month, 5GB storage, 512MB RAM, no credit card require... stable 2026-07-09
cirun.io Free Free for public GitHub repositories not published
change not established · 2026-09-10
2026-09-28 / 2026-07-08
Appcircle Starter Mobile CI/CD and distribution — free Starter plan: 20 builds/month, 1 concurrent build, 30-minute max build time, unlimi... stable 2026-09-26
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 ...
read found the page different · 2026-09-24
stable 2026-09-24 / 2026-08-23
Harness CI Free CI/CD platform — Free Plan is available for individual developers and small teams. It includes up to 60 concurrent pipel...
read found the page different · 2026-09-19
stable 2026-09-19 / 2026-07-05
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 2026-09-26 / 2026-07-05
Codemagic Free Mobile CI/CD platform — Single-user plan with unlimited number of applications and 500 free build minutes refilled every...
read found the page different · 2026-09-19
stable 2026-09-19 / 2026-08-19
GitLab CI Free 400 compute minutes/month, 10 GiB storage, 5 users. New accounts limited to 3 top-level groups stable 2026-09-21
CircleCI Free The Free plan includes 30,000 credits/month, 5 active users, and options for different resource classes (Docker, Windows... improving
discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknown
2026-09-19 / 2026-08-20
Bitbucket Pipelines Free CI/CD built into Bitbucket — 50 build minutes/month, 1 GB Git LFS, 5 users on free plan stable 2026-09-21
deployhq.com Free Automated deployment platform — free plan: 1 project, 3 deployments per day, 5 servers, 1 concurrent deployment, 30 buil...
read found the page different · 2026-09-20
stable 2026-09-20 / 2026-07-09
Terrateam Free Terrateam offers a free start with no credit card required. Features include cost estimation, policy enforcement, and se... stable 2026-09-22
Bitrise Hobby Mobile CI/CD platform — free Hobby plan: 300 credits/month, 1 private app (unlimited public apps), 1 user, 5 concurrent ...
read found the page different · 2026-09-28
stable 2026-09-28 / 2026-07-09
Buddy Free CI/CD pipeline automation — free plan: 1 user, 1 concurrent pipeline, 300 pipeline GB-minutes/month, 1 GB pipeline cache... stable 2026-09-22
Mergify Free workflow automation and merge queue for GitHub — Free for public GitHub repositories not published
change not established · 2026-09-12
2026-09-12 / 2026-07-09

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 21 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?

21 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 15 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, 2 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 3. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. 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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