About CICDCalculator.com
An independent reference for the cost of running CI/CD pipelines across the major hosted-runner platforms. Operated by Digital Signet, founded by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. Built so the build-minute-budgeting question can be answered without reverse-engineering each vendor's pricing page.
Why we built it
CI/CD pricing varies wildly across the providers and the units differ: GitHub Actions charges by minute with multipliers per OS, GitLab CI charges by minute with shared-runner caps, CircleCI charges by credit with class-multipliers, Buildkite charges per-job, Vercel charges by build duration. Most top-ranking pages on CI/CD cost are written by competing CI providers angling for the comparison. This site exists to publish a like-for-like cost calculator across the named providers, with the per-provider rate taken from that provider's own pricing page.
Who runs this site
Oliver runs Digital Signet, an independent AI-development studio that builds data-led pricing and decision tools using public datasets. After 20 years as a solutions architect and tech lead across media, utilities, satellite, and data, he founded Digital Signet to apply autonomous AI development methodology to real software at scale.
Reach Oliver: [email protected]. Profile: LinkedIn.
About the studio
This site is operated by Digital Signet, an independent AI-development studio founded by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. It is part of a portfolio of consumer cost-reference and calculator sites we run as a live R&D lab for our Signet methodology, an autonomous AI development team that ships real software at scale.
Digital Signet does not sell CI/CD products, does not run a build-pipeline consultancy, does not act as a reseller, and does not accept paid placements from any CI/CD provider. Editorial direction is set by Oliver. Drafts are produced via Digital Signet's autonomous AI development methodology and reviewed against the editorial framework before publication.
For consulting enquiries (fractional CTO, AI product strategy, autonomous-dev-team setup): see digitalsignet.com.
What we hold to
- Source pattern. One authoritative source per provider, cited per page.
- No paid placements. Does not sell CI/CD products, does not run a build-pipeline consultancy, does not act as a reseller, and does not accept paid placements from any CI/CD provider. Independent of every named third party in the relevant space.
- Math is documented inline. Where the site has a calculator, inputs and assumptions are visible on the calculator page. Nothing is hidden behind opaque scoring.
- Update only when underlying reality changes. Triggers: GitHub announces a change to Actions per-minute rates or OS multipliers; Material pricing change at any tracked CI provider; New CI provider with publicly-disclosed pricing reaches material market share; OS-multiplier or resource-class structure change.
Contact
For corrections, methodology questions, or scenarios that don't fit cleanly: [email protected].