CI/CD Pricing Trends

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.

The free tier now has 30 days of build history instead of 60, and 10GB cache per build instead of 3GB.

The free tier still exists. The details have been expanded. The free tier now includes options for different resource classes and concurrency levels. Previously about 30K credits/month (up to 6,000 build minutes on small Docker), 5 users, and 30x concurrency is still accurate as a baseline. The free tier now offers more options.

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.

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).

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.

The free tier now offers a $40 credit.

Doesn't confirm the original unlimited usage claim.

The Hobby plan now has a build timeout of 210 minutes, up from 90. The Hobby plan also includes 2GB of dependency cache storage. The Hobby plan is now explicitly free forever.

Credits reduced from 150,000 to 50,000/month, but contributor limit removed (now unlimited)

Free tier expanded from 1 project with 10 daily deployments to 3 projects with unlimited deployments

Self-hosted runner per-minute fee ($0.002/min) announced for March 2026 was postponed indefinitely after community backlash. Self-hosted runners remain free. Separately, hosted runner prices were reduced up to 39% (Jan 2026)