Advanced Pre-paid Billing: Premium Features Access

Overview

Advanced Pre-paid billing enables customers to access premium features while maintaining the flexibility of pre-paid billing. This plan is ideal for teams that need advanced capabilities but prefer self-serve management over annual contracts.

What is Advanced Pre-paid Billing?

Advanced Pre-paid billing combines the simplicity of pre-paid billing with access to premium features typically reserved for Scale plans. You maintain full control over your spending while accessing enhanced capabilities to accelerate your development workflow.

Key Benefits

  • Access to premium features without annual commitment
  • Pay-as-you-go flexibility with pre-paid credits
  • Higher resource limits and concurrent processing
  • Ideal for growing teams and AI/ML workloads

Feature Overview

Platform Support

  • Multi-platform Docker (Linux)
  • Linux ARM
  • macOS
  • macOS Dedicated Host
  • Windows GPU-Nvidia
  • Windows GPU-Nvidia M, Gen2
  • M All resource classes

Computing Resources

  • Access to all resource classes including 2XL and GPU
  • Resource class options:
    • Docker (Linux): S-2XL+

    • Linux: M-2XL+
    • ARM: M-2XL
    • macOS: M-L, Gen2
    • macOS Dedicated Host: Y
    • Windows: M, L
    • Windows GPU-Nvidia: M1

Performance Features

  • Self-hosted Runners: Up to 50x
  • Storage: 2 GB included
  • Network: 5 GB included
  • Caching: DLC Scale
  • Users: Unlimited
  • Cloud Concurrency:
    • Standard: Up to 200x
    • macOS: Up to 80x
    • macOS specific: 15x
  • Autoscaling supported

Security and Management

  • Private Orbs support
  • Build Timeouts: 5 Hours
  • Data Retention: 6 Months
  • Security features:
    • Self-Serve Audit logging (3 per day)
    • IP ranges (Shared)
    • Config Policies available

Additional Features

  • Insights
  • Flaky Tests detection
  • Extensibility options

Usage and Billing

  • Features are accessed using your pre-paid credits
  • No additional charge for the advanced feature access
  • Pay only for the resources you use
  • Maintain pre-paid billing flexibility

Ideal For

  1. Growing Teams: Organizations that need advanced features but don't require full Scale plan benefits
  2. AI/ML Development: Teams working on machine learning projects requiring access to GPU resources
  3. Scale Plan Transitions: Organizations moving from Scale to Performance plans who want to maintain access to advanced features
  4. Resource-Intensive Projects: Teams requiring access to 2XL resource classes and higher concurrency

Getting Started

Contact your account representative via cs@circleci.com or create a Support ticket to enable Advanced Pre-paid billing for your organization. They will help activate the feature flag for "add-on package" to grant access to advanced features.

Important Notes

  • Feature access is controlled via feature flags
  • All resource usage is deducted from your pre-paid credits
  • Actual resource consumption determines your costs
  • Regular pre-paid billing terms apply

 

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