REST and GraphQL API client for development and testing
Overview
What CircleCI does
CircleCI's platform helps software teams rapidly release code and run intelligent automated testing, so they can build better products faster. It is the world's largest repository of reusable software packages with over 900,000 community-built and open-source packages.
What people use it for
- Continuous integration pipelines for application code
- Parallel test execution across containers
- Docker-based builds with layer caching
- Deployment pipelines with approval gates
- Self-hosted runners for private infrastructure
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about CircleCI.
- The free plan covers 6,000 build minutes and 5 active users a month
- Active users are billed at $15 each beyond the included five, and an active user is anyone who commits to a project
- Everything runs on credits, so compute, Docker layer caching at 200 credits a job and IP ranges at 450 credits per GB all draw from the same pool
- Network and storage overage costs 420 credits per GB
- Free credits expire monthly with no rollover, and paid credits expire after a year
- Scale is annual billing only
Behind it
Who makes CircleCI
- Company
- CircleCI
- Based in
- San Francisco, California, USA
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