CircleCI alternatives
Every CI/CD provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers CircleCI's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from CircleCI's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- GitHub Actionsvs CircleCIEntry paid plan: GitHub Team: $4 USD per user/month (Free $0, Enterprise $21 USD per user/month).
- Buildkitevs CircleCIEntry paid plan: Pro plan: $30 per active user/month.
Where CircleCI stands against these 2
CircleCI's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 2 of the 2 alternatives that document it have one: Buildkite, GitHub Actions.
- Concurrent builds
- 30 concurrent job runs on Free, 80 on Performance, unlimited on Scale; macOS VM concurrency is 1 / 15 / customHighest of the 3 that document it. Next: GitHub Actions — Total concurrent jobs on standard GitHub-hosted runners: 20 on Free, 40 Pro, 60 Team, 500 Enterprise; 1,000…
- Max job duration
- Maximum job runtime is 1 hour on the Free plan, 3 hours on Performance and 5 hours on Scale3rd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: GitHub Actions — Up to 6 hours of execution time per job on GitHub-hosted runners.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.
