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:
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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
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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
- Growing Teams: Organizations that need advanced features but don't require full Scale plan benefits
- AI/ML Development: Teams working on machine learning projects requiring access to GPU resources
- Scale Plan Transitions: Organizations moving from Scale to Performance plans who want to maintain access to advanced features
- 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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