How does CircleCI charge credits for Private and Public Repositories?

Overview

Depending on your plan type and repository's privacy, you will have a number of allotted credits available.

Performance Plan

You can build both public and private repositories on the Performance plan. Open-source projects will consume credits. All private projects consume active user seats as normal. Users who are only building on open source repositories will not be counted as an active user for the billing cycle. You may vote on our open feature request to have open source credits for paid plans.

Free Plan

CircleCI provides Organizations 100,000 free credits per week ($2,880 annual value) to use for Linux open-source projects as long as repositories are public. Private repositories will have 2,500 credits/week available, which replenish every Sunday 12:00 UTC

Additional Troubleshooting

If you are already building on CircleCI and your configuration requires checking out a private repo, please follow these steps: Enable your project to checkout additional private repositories.

If you encounter any further issues, visit our Community Forum or submit a Support ticket.

Supported VCS integrations

GitHub Apps

GitHub OAuth Integration

Open Source projects are not currently supported on GitLab.

Additional Resources

CircleCI Documentation: Open Source Projects