GitHub Actions

Automate builds, tests and deployments from your repository.

What it is

CI/CD built into GitHub: you describe the workflows in YAML inside the repository itself and they run on Linux, macOS or Windows runners. The marketplace has thousands of reusable actions ready to compose.

Best for

Any project that already lives on GitHub.

What the free plan includes

Unlimited minutes on public repositories
2,000 minutes per month on private repositories
macOS runners consume minutes at a multiplied rate
500 MB of artifact storage

Free plans change often. Confirm the limits on the official page before deciding.

GitHub

Pick

Repositories, Pages, packages and collaboration.

Unlimited public and private repositories

GitLab CI/CD

Pipelines and runners built into the GitLab platform.

400 compute minutes per month

CircleCI

Hosted pipelines with flexible caching and parallelism.

30,000 credits per month

What it is

Best for

What the free plan includes

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