CircleCI Hidden Costs 2026
What they don't show you on the pricing page
CircleCI costs Free to $15 per month as of July 2026, with 4 plans available including a free tier. Plans: Free (free), and Performance at $15/month. Enterprise pricing is available on request. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.
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- Free tier: Yes
CircleCI offers 4 pricing tiers: Free, Performance, Scale, Enterprise. A free plan is available. Paid plans include Performance at $15/month (starting). The Performance plan is professional teams.
CircleCI lists $0-$15/month, but hidden costs like implementation and support add to the total as of July 2026. Key hidden costs: credits consumed vary by resource class (1x to 25x multipliers), macos builds consume credits at higher rates than linux, gpu and large resource classes (x-large, 2x-large) use credits faster. Verified from 1 sources by CostBench.
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