CircleCI pricing

• Hard capFree stops at its limits rather than billing more.
• Credit-based billingFree bills in credits: 30,000 a month, shared across everything it meters.

At the limit

Stops at the limit

Credits

30,000 a month: 10 per 1 minutes

• 30,000 free credits a month that expire at month end. A minute costs 5 credits on a small Docker runner, 10 on medium and 20 on large, so 30,000 credits is 6,000, 3,000 or 1,500 minutes.
• Free credits renew each month. On the Free plan, jobs fail to run once the credits run out (https://circleci.com/docs/guides/plans-pricing/credits/).
• Up to 5 active users are included. Each user beyond that costs 25,000 credits a month, which this estimate does not count.
• The pricing page lists no commercial-use restriction for the Free plan. Includes 1 GB of network transfer and 2 GB of storage a month.

Source: circleci.com · checked 19 October 2026

• Credit-based billingPerformance bills in credits: 55,000 a month, shared across everything it meters.
• Priced per seatPerformance charges for each team member.

At the limit

Bills for extra usage

Credits

55,000 a month: 10 per 1 minutes

Usage pricing

• Team seats: $15 per seat (above 5 seats)

• Starts at $15 a month, the price of one block of 25,000 credits, on top of the 30,000 free credits. Credits are sold in blocks of 25,000, so real bills round up to whole blocks.
• Unlike Free, when credits run out they refill automatically (about 25% of your monthly package, at least 25,000 credits) instead of stopping your builds.
• A minute costs 5 credits on a small Docker runner, 10 on medium and 20 on large. This estimate uses medium (10 credits per minute).
• Includes 5 active users. Each extra user costs 25,000 credits a month, which is $15. Paid credits roll over for up to a year; the 30,000 free credits do not.

Source: circleci.com · checked 19 October 2026