CircleCI 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

CircleCI

4.6

(92)

Pricing

Starting at $15.00 per month

About CircleCI

CircleCI helps users automate the software development process using continuous integration and delivery. The tool builds software using custom job orchestration with workflows.

CircleCI can be configured to deploy code to various environments including AWS CodeDeploy, AWS EC2 Container Service (ECS), AWS S3, Google Container Engine (GKE) and Heroku. Other cloud service deployments are scripted using SSH or by installing the API client.

CircleCI supports languages that are built on Linux, C++, Javascript, .NET, PHP, Python and Ruby. Users can speed up the app-building process with expanded caching options including images, source codes, dependencies and custom caches. Automated provisioning allows parallel execution of programs resulting in less downtime waiting for a workflow to complete.

CircleCI dashboard enables users to see all their builds on a single screen. It integrates with third party applications such as Slack, HipChat, Campfire, Flowdock and IRC. Pricing is per month. Support is provided via online forum and email.

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CircleCI Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $15.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Free

$0.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Build Better: Choose the Right Resource Class Size (S⁠–⁠l) to Go Fast and Maximize Your Build Minutes
Fast: Run up to 30 Jobs at an Time and Run Your Tests in Parallel Using Test Splitting
Largest Selection: Build for Docker; Windows; Linux; Arm; and Macos or on Your Own Compute With Self-Hosted Runners
Up to 6000 Build Minutes Per Month

Performance

$15.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

6000 Bonus Build Minutes Per Month
Add More as You Grow
Expertise: Access to 8x5 Support With Add-on Plan
Pay as You Go for More
Plus Access to Larger Resource Classes for Better Performance
Power: All of the Environments in Free
Speed: Run up to 80 Jobs Concurrently
Teamwork: 5 User Seats Included

Scale

$2,000.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Audit Logging and Bulk Data Export
Control: Customizable Annual Billing
Customize Your Build Minutes and Seats to Fit Your Team
Expertise: A Dedicated Account Team and Access to 24/7 Support
Flexibility: All the Environments in
Performance
Plus Access to GPU Resource Classes
Power: Our Largest Resource Classes for Complex Processes and Speed

Server

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

30 User Seats Included
Add More as You Grow
Arm and Android
Control: Circleci Behind Your Firewall or on Your Own Hardware
Expertise: A Dedicated Account Team and Access to 24/7 Support
Flexibility: Build on Linux
Including Migration Assistance
Scale: Unlimited Build Minutes
Windows

CircleCI Features

Popular features found in Automated Testing
API
Collaboration Tools
Customizable Reports
Hierarchical View
Model-Based Testing
Monitoring
Reporting & Statistics
Requirements Management
Software Testing Management
Supports Parallel Execution
Test Script Reviews
Workflow Management
More features of CircleCI
Access Controls/Permissions
Action-Word Testing
App Management
Approval Workflow
Automated Testing
Build Log
Change Management
Compatibility Testing
Compliance Management
Configuration Management
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Integration
Dashboard
Debugging
Deployment Management
Device Enrollment
Graphical User Interface
Integrated Development Environment
KPI Monitoring
Mobile Development
Parameterized Testing
Policy Management
Prioritization
Quality Assurance
Release Management
Remote Access/Control
Reporting/Analytics
Requirements-Based Testing
Security Management
Security Testing
Software Development
Static Analysis
Testing Management
Timeline Management
Troubleshooting Reports
Unicode Compliance
Web App Development

CircleCI Integrations

GitHub

Integration rated 4.8 from 14 reviews

CircleCI User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

58%

40%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.5

Michael R.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2017

Continuously improving over the years

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Responsive support, much faster builds now I can easily parallelize things with Workflows 2.0. Very easily integrated with GitHub and other code-quality services. Able to build in macOS if necessary.

Cons:

I would like the ability to specify resources available to a machine, fine to charge more for this feature. I would like to use Workflows 2.0 with macOS builds. It would also be great to be able to specify which docker images are cached on all executors, fine to charge more for this feature.

Alvaro I.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

automated test do it right

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Is integrated with several tools like slack - Configure a project is simple and quick, and most of the cases once you have done this, you will not need to log in into the platform. You will have build going in a couple of hours. - I have it running in several project and works really well.

Cons:

- Pricing could be a little bit better I guess or have a better free plan for beginners, I don't think any cons of using CircleCI actually.

Jeffrey K.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Does the job, but lacking in features

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It's relatively simple to get started. I like that you can pick between Docker and VMs. It integrates with GitHub nicely.

Cons:

The Docker in Docker paradigm doesn't work for us since we use containers. We end up using VMs anyways. I think the configuration language is not that great to use and can quickly get unwieldy for larger CI workflows (especially when repeating jobs with different parameters). There are also outages at least once a quarter.

Darrell "Jeremy" F.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2017

Great build/deploy tool

It's quick, easy to set up, and I like it. There are some usability fixes that are needed around user maangement, but otherwise, it's great! And works with all of the languages I use out of the box, and with no configuration.

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

CircleCI was great and easy to set up. It allows me to see what's going on with all of my builds quickly and in real time.

Cons:

The user management is not very good. I have 5 contributors to a repo, and I can only add two of them as users. I can't even add users that aren't a contributor to the repo. My boss, my QA people, and my PMs can't see anything that's happening in the platform.

Yasmany C.

Verified reviewer

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

CI/CD with few lines

Integration with IOs allow us to build and test the mobile apps and automatize our whole CI/CD pipeline

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Sine the release of circleci v2.0 using containers as the main advantage using circle has become much simpler and powerfull. Their integration with IOs its a powerup in front of other CI/CD platforms

Cons:

The ui really needs to cleanup a bit, make it simpler. Also their need to provide more integrations with third party tools

Noah S.

Verified reviewer

Internet

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

I love CI about as much as Circle does

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The simplicity of configuration is unparalleled. We use CI on new projects day one. The ease of use, and setup, is definitely what keeps us coming back.

Cons:

Lack of tools for multi project repos. We would love to keep our front and back-end code together in one repo while splitting the CI for them. So, it'd be great if we could run two builds separately based on the same repo.

Ryan M.

Verified reviewer

Internet

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

CircleCi has changed how we develop

Overall I've been really happy with the performance from circleci. Even their free plan has been great.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

Has helped up to totally streamline our development and testing workflow. Each service has it's own pipeline. The management interface and docker integration have made the setup and monitoring process super simple.

Travis H.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

Easy to use and powerful

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Super easy configuration and initial setup. Powerful features like running steps of build/testing process in parallel. CircleCI is our teams core safety net for catching bugs and deploying safely, often.

Cons:

Not a lot to dislike. Sometimes the interface changes and buttons that you used to expect to be there (like the one for rebuild with out cache) disappear. Hopefully there will be fewer of these unexpected changes as 2.0 becomes more mature.

Filip T.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Powerful CI / CD platform

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Great UI, easy to setup, easy to manage. All integrations "just work", we use Slack notifications, webhooks for triggering build, and even those sweet browser notifications when we need to make sure that the build is successful. Impressive Docker support.

Cons:

Circle 2.0 offers improved customizability, added more features, but for small and simple projects it's not as easy to setup anymore.

Tung F.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Great tool but lack tutorials

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

As any Continuous Integration tool it does what it should do. Builds and runs. Hard to say what's the most because haven't used other CI tools but CircleCI does what's expected and there was no thoughts about changing to other tools. So I would recommend using it.

Cons:

The tutorials are not yet clear. They don't lead from start to workable CI.

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