Best CI/CD Platforms for Web in 2026

The ranking

1
GitHub Actions
The default CI for GitHub repositories, free for public repositories and with included minutes by plan. Its workflows depend on GitHub, so it does not help teams that host code elsewhere.
Best for Projects already on GitHub
WebFree plan, paid upgrades
92.0of 100
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GitLab
Source control, CI/CD and planning in one product, with a free tier for personal projects and an MIT-licensed Community Edition. Premium is $29 per user a month, and advanced security sits on the custom-priced Ultimate plan.
Best for Code hosting plus CI in one product
WebSelf-hostedFree plan, paid upgradesOpen source
90.5of 100
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CircleCI
A hosted CI platform with a Free Cloud Server plan of 30,000 credits a month and machine sizes for each job. Costs rise with credit use, and the Scale plan starts with a sales demo.
Best for Hosted CI with control over machine size
WebPay as you go
87.0of 100
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Buildkite
Runs jobs on your own agents or on hosted Linux agents billed per minute, with a Free plan for up to five active users. Pro is $30 per active user a month, and the platform is not open source.
Best for CI on your own infrastructure
WebFree plan, paid upgrades
85.5of 100
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Azure Pipelines
Microsoft's CI/CD service inside Azure DevOps, with one free parallel job of 1,800 build minutes per organization each month. It fits teams on Azure or Microsoft tooling, and extra parallel jobs and users add cost.
Best for Teams on Azure and Microsoft tooling
WebFree plan, paid upgrades
85.0of 100
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Bitbucket Pipelines
CI built into Bitbucket Cloud with 50 free build minutes a month and no separate CI server to run. It works only with Bitbucket Cloud repositories, and build minutes cap each plan.
Best for Teams already on Bitbucket Cloud
WebFree plan, paid upgrades
84.0of 100
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Jenkins
A free, MIT-licensed automation server with a large plugin ecosystem, for teams that want full control of their infrastructure. The servers and plugin upkeep are yours to manage.
Best for Self-hosted CI with full control
WebSelf-hostedFree and open sourceOpen source
83.5of 100
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Semaphore
CI/CD service billed per minute by machine size, with $15 of free credits each month and a self-hosted rate of $0.0025 a minute. Its own comparison reports faster builds and lower cost per job, but those figures are the vendor's.
Best for Teams that want per-minute pricing and fast builds
WebPay as you go
82.5of 100
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Woodpecker CI
An Apache 2.0 licensed, container-based CI engine that is free to self-host, with core and community plugins. It asks the team to run and secure the server.
Best for Open-source container-based CI, self-hosted
WebSelf-hostedFree and open sourceOpen source
80.0of 100
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At a glance

Product	Score	Price	Platforms	Hosting
GitHub Actions	92.0	Free plan, paid upgrades	Web	GitHub-hosted or self-hosted runners
GitLab	90.5	Free plan, paid upgrades	WebSelf-hosted	GitLab.com or self-managed
CircleCI	87.0	Pay as you go	Web	Hosted, usage credits
Buildkite	85.5	Free plan, paid upgrades	Web	Your agents or hosted agents
Azure Pipelines	85.0	Free plan, paid upgrades	Web	Microsoft-hosted agents
Bitbucket Pipelines	84.0	Free plan, paid upgrades	Web	Bitbucket Cloud
Jenkins	83.5	Free and open source	WebSelf-hosted	Self-hosted
Semaphore	82.5	Pay as you go	Web	Cloud runners or self-hosted
Woodpecker CI	80.0	Free and open source	WebSelf-hosted	Self-hosted