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CircleCI

Hosted CI/CD for build, test and deploy pipelines

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CircleCI is a CI/CD platform that connects to GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repositories. It offers hosted build machines including Docker and macOS, self-hosted runners, reusable orbs and test insights.

  • Pipeline as code (not listed)
  • Parallel and cached builds (not listed)
  • Managed build runners
  • Deployment automation (not listed)
  • Secrets management (not listed)
  • Approval gates (not listed)

Also includes

  • Self-hosted runners
  • Reusable pipeline templates
  • Build analytics

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Blacksmith

Free plan· $0.0025/min 2–500+ people

Faster, cheaper runners for GitHub Actions

Key features

  • Parallel and cached builds
  • Managed build runners

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Depot

$20/month 2–500+ people

Fast container builds, caching and CI

Key features

  • Parallel and cached builds
  • Managed build runners

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GitHub Actions

Free plan 1–500+ people

CI/CD built into GitHub repositories

Key features

  • Pipeline as code
  • Managed build runners
  • Secrets management