Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 2 independent review sources
- 601 third-party reviews counted
- 1 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 1
- 5 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why CircleCI ranks #3
CircleCI ranks #3 of 9 ci/cd platforms with a TOP SCORE of 58.
The category leader scores 70, a gap of 12 points.
That is 10 points above the category average of 48.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 79; its weakest is Web Authority at 18.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
55 → 58 ↑2.5
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.4/5 | 88 | 509 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| Capterra ↗ | 4.6/5 | 92 | 92 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 86% | 29% | 29% | 2.7 | 7 | 1 Sept 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- CircleCI Support31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- Capterra31 Aug 2026
- Capterra Ireland31 Aug 2026
- TrustRadius31 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- CircleCI is a cloud-hosted CI/CD platform billed on prepaid credits rather than build minutes, spending them on active users, compute time, add-ons and network/storage overage. It offers an unusually wide execution matrix — Docker, Linux, Arm, Windows, macOS on M4 Pro and seven GPU classes — plus self-hosted runners on every plan including Free. It targets startups, SMBs and enterprises with bursty or heterogeneous build workloads, and a self-hosted Server option exists on a separate price list.
- Category
- CI/CD Platforms
- Products
- CircleCI Cloud, CircleCI Server (self-hosted), Self-hosted runners, Orbs registry, Insights / flaky test detection, MCP server
- Markets
- Startup, SMB, Enterprise, Open source projects
- Integrations
- GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes
- Pricing
- From $15/month (Performance) · free tier: $0/month, no credit card: 30,000 credits/month (page also claims up to 6,000 build minutes), up to 5 active users, 1 GB network, 2 GB storage, 30x concurrency (macOS concurrency 1), Docker layer caching, private orbs, 5 self-hosted runner tasks; credits expire monthly with no rollover pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- Compliance status is unverified: no SOC 2, ISO 27001 or FedRAMP evidence was retrieved this session, and no trust-centre page was confirmed. The only contractually verified terms are credit expiry (12 months for paid credits, monthly for included credits) and forfeiture of unused credits on cancellation or downgrade.
- Official website
- https://circleci.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform58
- Category leader70
- Category average48
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