CircleCI
Autonomous validation for the AI era·circleci.com
CircleCI is a cloud-native continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform that automates build, test, and deployment workflows. It supports Docker, Linux, macOS, Windows, GPU, and Android execution environments for a wide range of application types. Engineering teams use it to improve development velocity, enforce security standards, and maintain reliability across microservices, mobile apps, machine learning pipelines, and AI-powered systems. It also offers a self-hosted Server option alongside its cloud offering.
What it's for
Features 20
- Analytics & Insights for performance monitoring and test analysis
- Auto-scaling of compute resources
- Chunk: automated handling of flaky tests, tech debt, and optimizations
- CircleCI CLI for local builds and debugging
- Comprehensive audit logging
- Concurrency and parallelism controls for job runs
- Config policies for pipeline governance
- Docker layer caching
- Execution environments supporting Docker, Linux, macOS, Windows, GPU, and Android
- Flaky test detection
- MCP Server giving AI tools access to logs, job metadata, and failure context
- Orbs: reusable CI/CD configuration packages
- REST API v2 for pipelines, jobs, builds, and environment metadata
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Rollback pipelines with automatic reverts and approvals
- Secrets management built into pipelines
- Self-hosted runners
- Single sign-on (SSO) on the Scale plan
- Smarter Testing to run only relevant tests
- VS Code extension for managing pipelines from the IDE
At a glance
Integrations
Complianceself-reported
Pricing
Free plan requires no credit card and offers all premium features with usage limits. Performance plan is usage-based starting at $15/month with credits, additional credits and users billed separately. Scale plan is custom-priced, billed annually, available on request. Prices do not include applicable taxes. Open-source projects can access up to 400,000 credits/month (about 80,000 build minutes) on Linux, Arm, and Docker.
No credit card required
Up to 6,000 build minutes; up to 5 active users/month; 30x concurrency
Pay only for what you use; option to purchase bulk credits at a discount (Prepaid Billing)
30,000 credits included free; 5 active users included; 80x concurrency
Billed annually; contact sales for pricing (Get in touch / Book a demo)
Custom scale; billed annually
Discounted bulk credit purchases starting at 5 million credits for $3,000 via Prepaid Billing