Pricing trends for CI/CD: 5 tracked pricing changes across 38 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

CI/CD Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

38
Vendors
1%
of All Tracked Changes
1
At-Risk Vendors
reduced 3 increased 1 postponed 1

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

reduced Buildkite discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknown medium
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 ↗
increased CircleCI discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknown medium
CircleCI's plan table began listing the (x86) Docker (Gen 2) Small, Medium, Medium+ and Large resource classes as available on the Free plan, between the Internet Archive's captures of 2026-08-29 and 2026-09-01. The Free plan's 30,000 credits a month, up to 5 active users and 30x concurrency did not change. Source ↗
reduced Terrateam discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
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 ↗
reduced Nx Cloud effective 2026-05-13 medium
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 ↗
postponed GitHub Actions effective 2026-01-01 low
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) Source ↗

We hold 8 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

At-Risk Vendors

All 1 of the 38 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

Stable Picks

All 16 of the 38 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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