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9 Best Free CI/CD Tools of 2026

By the Rankozo research desk · Updated November 9, 2026

9 of the 10 tools in our best ci/cd tools ranking offer a permanent free plan. GitHub Actions scores highest among them at 9.1 out of 10.

01
GitHub Actions
Teams that host their code on GitHub and want CI/CD with no extra vendor.
Free plan with 2,000 CI/CD minutes a month; Team $4 per user per month with 3,000 minutes; Enterprise $21 per user per month with 50,000 minutes
Full entry, No. 1 overall
Paid from
$4
Score 9.1
02
CircleCI
Teams that want the largest free build allowance and pay-for-what-you-use pricing.
Free plan with up to 6,000 build minutes and 5 active users; Performance from $15 per month with 30,000 credits included; Scale is custom
Full entry, No. 2 overall
Paid from
$15
Score 8.6
03
GitLab CI/CD
Teams that want source control, pipelines and security testing in one product.
Free plan with 400 compute minutes a month for up to 5 users; Premium $29 per user per month billed annually with 10,000 minutes; Ultimate is custom
Full entry, No. 3 overall
Paid from
$29
Score 8.5
04
Semaphore
Cost-conscious teams that want low per-minute rates without seat fees.
$15 of free credits each month; pay as you go from $0.0075 per minute for Ubuntu x64 2 vCPU and $0.0025 per minute for self-hosted agents; support plans from $50 per month
Full entry, No. 4 overall
Paid from
Free
Score 8.4
05
Azure Pipelines
Teams on Azure or .NET that want flat monthly pricing per parallel job.
1 free Microsoft-hosted job with 1,800 minutes and 1 free self-hosted job; $40 per extra Microsoft-hosted parallel job and $15 per extra self-hosted parallel job per month
Full entry, No. 5 overall
Paid from
$15
Score 8.1
06
Bitbucket Pipelines
Teams that use Jira and Bitbucket and want the cheapest paid seat.
Free for up to 5 users with 50 build minutes; Standard $3.65 per user per month; Premium $8 per user per month; 1,000 extra minutes for $10 a month
Full entry, No. 6 overall
Paid from
$3.65
Score 7.9
07
Jenkins
Teams with operations capacity that want full control and no license fees.
Free and open source; you pay only for the servers you run it on
Full entry, No. 7 overall
Paid from
Free
Score 7.9
08
TeamCity
Teams that want a free self-hosted server with JetBrains tooling, or a managed cloud option.
See vendor pricing (USD check pending)
Full entry, No. 8 overall
Paid from
Free plan
Score 7.7
09
Buildkite
Large engineering teams that want to run builds on their own infrastructure at high concurrency.
Free plan for up to 5 users with 10 concurrent jobs and 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes; Pro $30 per active user per month; Enterprise is custom
Full entry, No. 9 overall
Paid from
$30
Score 7.6