Azure Pipelines

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Free allowance: One Microsoft-hosted CI/CD job with 1,800 minutes a month, plus one self-hosted job with unlimited minutes, on every Azure DevOps organisation
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: request-rate1,800 hosted minutes a month on one parallel job; extra hosted jobs are $40 a month each
Evidence: documented2 sources; 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	one Microsoft-hosted CI/CD job with 1,800 minutes a month, plus one self-hosted job with unlimited minutes, on every Azure DevOps organisation unit minutes; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate (binding) 1,800 hosted minutes a month on one parallel job; extra hosted jobs are $40 a month each source write-gated the unlimited-minutes half applies only to a self-hosted agent, which a user must run source not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	not stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	unknown
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence note	documented the Azure DevOps pricing page was read on 2026-10-22. The free allowance is a monthly minute pool on one hosted job plus an unmetered self-hosted job, which is a recurring tier and not a credit

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devop	not published
2026-10-22	azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devop	'1 Microsoft-hosted job with 1,800 minutes per month for CI/CD and 1 self-hosted job with unlimited minutes per month' and '$40 per extra Microsoft-hosted CI/CD parallel job', quoted

More fields 11

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  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "a hosted job has its own timeout; the monthly minute pool is what runs out first"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "allowance",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 60,
  "rounding_s": null
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 "net": null
}

Unknown values 10

$.chaining a source was read and is silent on this field
$.egress.metered egress metering was not published
$.egress.terms a source was read and is silent on this field
$.interface the access interface was not established
$.limits_note a source was read and is silent on this field
$.per_object_cap.stated a source was read and is silent on this field
$.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed
$.retention.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.stated a source was read and is silent on this field
$.tooling a source was read and is silent on this field