CircleCI

circleci.com · CI runners, Compute, Storage · 3 records · JSON

CircleCI Free CI runnerscaveatemailno cardDrequest-rate
CircleCI Computecaveatemail?card?Drequest-rate
CircleCI artifacts Storagefails: quotaemail?card?Rretention-clamped

CircleCI Free CI runners

caveatemailno cardDrequest-rate

circleci.com/pricing/ · CI runner · ci-cd-runners/circleci-free · JSON · compare

Free tier	30,000 credits a month for private projects and 400,000 credits a month for public repositories; 5 active users; 30x concurrency unit requests; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	no published per-job cap; credits are consumed by machine size and time
Retention	credits expire monthly and do not roll over; caches and artifacts expire per configuration
Egress	network and storage beyond the included thresholds are billed at 420 credits per GB
Identity	email email signup, typically by GitHub or Bitbucket OAuth
Limits	request-rate 30,000 credits a month on Free; every credit expires at the end of the month source request-rate 30x concurrency on Free, and 5 active users source per-object-cap network and storage beyond the included thresholds at 420 credits per GB source
Binding	request-rate
Interface	git, cli a .circleci/config.yml pipeline; the CircleCI API and CLI
Tooling	the CircleCI convenience images; docker; any shell
Composes with	the largest credit pool of the hosted CI providers here, and the only one that scales with public rather than private visibility by a factor above ten
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	30,000 credits is roughly 6,000 small-Docker minutes, which is 100 hours and larger than any other hosted pool here. The public-repository pool at 400,000 credits is the outlier and it is the one to check first if the work can be public.
Evidence rung	documented the pricing page was read today; the credits doc was read for the overage rate. The 5,000-credit figure in circulation is the pre-2025 plan.
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:request-rate 30000.0 credits / month `$.limits[2].value` limit:per-object-cap 420.0 credits

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	circleci.com/pricing/	Free: 30,000 credits a month, 5 active users, 30x concurrency; 400,000 credits a month for public repositories
2026-10-22	docs.circleci.com/guides/plans-pricing/credits	credits are consumed by machine size and duration; network and storage beyond the threshold are 420 credits per GB

Unknown or withheld values (1)

$.reliability_note none-observed

CircleCI Compute

caveatemail?card?Drequest-rate

circleci.com/pricing/price-list/ · macOS host · compute/circleci · JSON · compare

Free tier	not published unit none; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	request-rate machine time costs from 5 to 120 credits a minute depending on the resource class source write-gated the price list states no free plan; the free allowance is on a page this record does not cite source not stated
Binding	request-rate
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	not stated
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence rung	documented the price list was read on 2026-10-22 and carries the machine rates as credits per minute. The free allowance is not on this page, so the record's free-tier claim is not settled by it and the rung stays `reported` on that field
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:request-rate 120.0 credits / minute

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	circleci.com/pricing/price-list/	not published
2026-10-22	circleci.com/pricing/price-list/	the price list was read on 2026-10-22 and publishes per-minute credit costs from 5 credits a minute to 120: 'Cost (credits/min) 5 credits/min, 10, 15, 20, 40, 80, 100'. It states no free plan on this page

More fields (15)

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 "talaria_m10h_usd": 108.0,
 "talaria_m24h_usd": 259.2,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": 90.0,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": null,
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": null,
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "a job has its own timeout; the credit balance is what runs out"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "allowance",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 1,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "burst_x": 1.0,
 "net": null
}

Unknown or withheld values (19)

$.chaining not-stated
$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.evidence[0].proved process
$.extras.keep_rate_basis process
$.extras.price_note process
$.free_tier.notes withheld
$.free_tier.stated process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note not-stated
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-stated
$.tooling not-stated

CircleCI artifacts Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?Rretention-clamped

circleci.com · paas · storage/circleci-artifacts · JSON · compare

Free tier	No storage quota advertised on Free (30,000 credits/month). Artifact retention default AND maximum is 30 days on Cloud; storage usage is a billed meter, not an allowance. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	Artifact retention default AND maximum is 30 days on Cloud; storage usage is a billed meter, not an allowance (30 days)
Egress	Free download from app.circleci.com; artifacts are 'protected with your CircleCI account for private projects' — public-project artifacts are reachable, private are not.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	retention-clamped retention default AND maximum is 30 days source retention-clamped retention 30 days source 3 GB max per individual artifact file; retention 30 days maximum (workspaces/caches 15 days max); storage beyond plan is billed.
Binding	retention-clamped a clock, not a quota: bytes leave whether or not the client is finished with them
Interface	s3, rest, rclone rest
Tooling	REST v2 artifacts endpoint; artifacts stored on Amazon S3 behind CircleCI. No rclone backend, no first-class bulk client.
Composes with	Unlimited projects x 3 GB per file, but the 30-day hard ceiling makes this a rolling buffer, not storage.
Reliability	30-day deletion is unconditional and irreversible. Purely a CI convenience store.
Notes	No storage quota advertised on Free (30,000 credits/month). Artifact retention default AND maximum is 30 days on Cloud; storage usage is a billed meter, not an allowance.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	circleci.com/docs/guides/optimize/artifacts/	'Individual artifact files have a maximum size limit of 3GB'; 'By default, artifact storage duration is set to 30 days ... Currently, 30 days is also the maximum storage duration you can set'
2026-10-21	circleci.com/docs/guides/optimize/persist-data/	'Artifacts (default and maximum is 30 days)'
2026-10-21	circleci.com/pricing/	Free plan, 30,000 credits

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "retention",
  "why": "No storage quota advertised on Free (30,000 credits/month). Artifact retention default AND maximum is 30 days on Cloud; storage usage is a billed meter, not an allowance.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (7)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted