compiler.dev
- Free allowance
- 200 free minutes over 14 days, up to 8 jobs at once, Linux only, with no card; a card is needed only when the minutes run out.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe free window is 14 days; prepaid credit never expires and unused credit is refunded on request
- Evidence
- documented12 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-11checked 2026-11-10 (live); stale on 2026-12-11
| Free tier | 200 free minutes over 14 days, up to 8 jobs at once, Linux only, with no card; a card is needed only when the minutes run out. Beyond the trial the Basic plan is USD 0.001 a core-minute, so a 2-core runner is USD 0.002 a minute and an 8-core runner USD 0.008. unit minutes; metered on wall-clock |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
prepaid credit is sold in USD 20, USD 100 (which buys USD 110) and USD 500 (which buys USD 600) blocks that never expire; Turbo runs on dedicated machines and is arranged with the vendor |
| Binding | retention-clamped The 14-day window fails before the 200 minutes for most pipelines: the trial is a comparison allowance, and a project that wants to keep using it must add a card and buy prepaid credit. |
| Identity | email an email and a GitHub account, with no card for the trial: "No card needed: the trial starts when you install the App"; a card is added only when the 200 minutes run out |
| Egress | not stated: the page prices compute per core-minute and publishes no egress allowance or egress charge |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: a job is bounded by the runner size, chosen with a label such as compiler-8cpu |
| Retention | not applicable: a job runs and is destroyed; the trial itself ends after 14 days |
| Interface | git a GitHub Actions workflow names a compiler.dev runner label such as compiler-2cpu or compiler-8cpu; the trial starts when the GitHub App is installed |
| Tooling | a GitHub App installation and a runs-on label change on an existing workflow; no agent or self-hosted runner is needed |
| Composes with | GitHub Actions on a public repository stays free and comes first; compiler.dev sells private-repository minutes at USD 0.001 a core-minute, which is USD 0.002 for 2 cores against GitHub list price of USD 0.006, and the 200 free minutes are enough to compare one pipeline before a card is added |
| Reliability | the trial is capped at 8 concurrent jobs and Linux only; the page publishes no job wall clock and no queue limit |
| Notes | A per-core-minute hosted runner with a small no-card trial: 200 minutes over 14 days, 8 concurrent jobs, Linux only. The rate is the lowest published core-minute price in this topic, and the trial is sized for a comparison rather than for a workload. |
| Evidence note | documented The trial terms, the three rates and the credit terms are read from the vendor own pricing page. Raise by running a job in the trial and reading the minute counter and the first prepaid-credit line. |
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Evidence 12
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | the trial is 200 free minutes over 14 days with no card |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | the price is per core-minute |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | a job is bounded by the runner size |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | the trial itself ends after 14 days |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | no egress allowance or charge is published |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | a job targets a runner by its runs-on label |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | part of the text of Interface, above |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | the Basic rate is USD 0.001 a core-minute |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | no card is needed for the trial |
| 2026-11-10 | compiler.dev/pricing | part of the text of Reliability, above |
Unknown values 1
- egress metered: egress metering was not published