Azure Pipelines (private project, free grant)
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
ci-cd-runners/azure-pipelines-privatesays qualifies-with-caveat, ci-cd-runners/azure-pipelines-public says dead
- Free allowance
- 1 free parallel job with 1,800 minutes a month and 60 minutes per job, with a 10 GB disk
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap60 minutes per job on the free grant
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | 1 free parallel job with 1,800 minutes a month and 60 minutes per job, with a 10 GB disk unit minutes; metered on wall-clock |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Identity | card an Azure subscription is required, which means a payment instrument, even when the grant is free |
| Egress | no egress charge on the hosted agent itself |
| Per-object cap | 60 minutes per job on the free grant; 360 minutes only on a paid parallel job |
| Retention | artifacts and logs follow pipeline retention settings; the minute pool is monthly |
| Interface | git, cli an azure-pipelines.yml pipeline; a REST API and the az CLI |
| Tooling | the Microsoft-hosted images; any shell; the Azure CLI preinstalled |
| Composes with | 1,800 minutes is the largest per-job-minute pool of the small providers, and the 60-minute job cap is the smallest |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The 60-minute job cap is the smallest of any provider here and it is the number that excludes a user's work. The subscription requirement is the second gate. |
| Evidence note | documented the hosted-agents doc was read. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/host | one free parallel job with 1,800 minutes a month and a 60-minute maximum job duration; 10 GB of disk; the 360-minute cap applies only with a paid parallel job |
Unknown values 1
$.reliability_notenothing of this kind was observed