Testing & QA · pricing
CircleCI pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for CircleCI. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the testing & qa tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The CircleCI catalogue entry carries no price and a freemium pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the CircleCI review carries the full feature record.
How that compares in Testing & QA
Too few testing & qa tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CircleCI (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Zephyr Scale | On request | subscription | - | vs CircleCI |
| BugHerd | On request | subscription | - | vs CircleCI |
| GitHub Actions | Free | freemium | - | vs CircleCI |
| Insomnia | Free | freemium | - | vs CircleCI |
| BrowserStack | On request | subscription | - | vs CircleCI |
| Cypress | Free, then $67/month | freemium | - | vs CircleCI |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the CircleCI badges page.
Before you pay for CircleCI
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
CircleCI runs on not recorded, and is published by CircleCI of San Francisco, California, USA. The full record is on the CircleCI review, and the rest of the category is under best testing & qa tools.
CircleCI pricing questions
- How much does CircleCI cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for CircleCI, which is listed as freemium. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does CircleCI have a free plan?
- Yes, CircleCI is recorded as freemium, so it can be used without paying.
- Which testing & qa tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 7 testing & qa tools listed alongside CircleCI have a free tier: GitHub Actions, Insomnia, Cypress, Playwright.
- What am I actually paying for with CircleCI?
- The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The CircleCI review carries whatever feature detail is available.
- Does CircleCI charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these CircleCI prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare CircleCI against before paying?
- The closest testing & qa tools in this directory are Zephyr Scale, BugHerd, GitHub Actions, Insomnia. Each has a side-by-side comparison with CircleCI covering price, platforms and features.