Why Should You Consider It

Why pay for Travis CI when GitHub is free

We know you can get your build minutes for free elsewhere. The harsh reality is that free comes at a commoditized, developer-unfriendly cost.

As a developer, you invest in tools for good reasons:

You seek something built for you

You don’t want the cortisol spike of gluing together unsupported plugins from a marketplace or navigating a monstrous ‘DevSecOps platform’ designed for other folks at enterprise scale.

You want a precision tool designed to help you get the job done. Learn something new. Elevate your skills. Nudge you toward the next step in your development journey.

You seek real community and support from developers

Good luck getting help on your Actions build from a real GitHub engineer—they’ll tell you to read the docs or ask around on Reddit and Stack Overflow.

Travis CI takes a different tack. We recognize the value of a tight-knit community of developers with deep CI/CD experience. It is, simply put, an expense we’re happy to bear.

You seek resilience

Travis CI launched in 2011 as the first cloud-based CI tool, and has continuously grown since because we refuse the CI/CD commodification and commit to building undeniably simple and extensible tools.

Hundreds of thousands of developers at businesses large and small trust Travis CI today—the most downloaded app on GitHub and highest-rated CI/CD tool for performance and ROI many years running.

Our approach to CI/CD remains developer-first

We pioneered the first cloud-based CI/CD tooling to simplify how developers build, test, and deploy their code. We’ve remained unwavering to our mission of guiding developers into the next stage of their careers, where you’re so proficient in day-to-day tasks you can start innovating again.

Other CI/CD platforms

Commodify CI/CD as just one feature within a much bigger platform designed for DevOps or platform engineers.
Reinforce a model where engineers create CI/CD pipelines as “guardrails” to be enforced upon developers.
Hide inevitable costs behind a generous free tier that only affects you once you’ve finished migration.
Create a walled garden experience that comes with “batteries included” but restricts how you use favorite tools and version control systems.

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Travis CI's CI/CD tooling

Gives developers a simple interface—on the web, in their CLI, or via the API—for building and managing pipelines.
Lets developers design, configure, and maintain pipelines with simplicity for better quality and complete ownership.
Helps you predict and plan for CI/CD costs with a simple user-based pricing model.
Gives you endless options for building bespoke CI/CD experiences for your team via our API and open-source tooling.

Just $15 per month per user

With our new usage-based plans, you start with a free trial month and then invest in your CI/CD pipelines based on the number of active developers. It’s that simple.

1,000 build minutes every month, pay as you go for more
Run up to 80 jobs concurrently
Unlimited repositories
Compatibility with every VCS, including Git, SVN, Assembla, and Perforce
Access to more environments and architectures than any other CI/CD
Flexibility to run pipelines on faster premium VMs

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Fifteen years of trust and counting

Travis CI was the original CI/CD tool in the cloud. Our technology has changed over time, but not our commitment to helping builders on their development journey from first tests to parallelized pipeline scale.

Expert customer success team

Our expert CI/CD engineers are problem-solvers at heart. Whether you’re validating new CI/CD tools or have uncovered new challenges at scale, we’re ready to help—not as a faceless vendor but as a strategic partner in your mission for quality, velocity, and developer wellbeing.

Tighter feedback cycle

Our dashboard, CLI tooling, and open-source integrations are under renewed investment based on feedback from developers like yourself. Dreamed up a feature you’d like to see? Have feedback for our product team? We’d love to hear—and build from—your thoughts.

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Educator and student plans

Every semester, Travis CI helps students at MIT, Dartmouth, Stanford, and dozens of other institutions for higher education practice their future in code quality. Unlock free build minutes and unlimited collaborators with your GitHub Education account.

Travis CI for Education

Open-source build credits

Building developer or infrastructure tools in a public repository and with a permissible license? Contact us after creating your account—we’ll validate your use case for free build minutes and concurrent jobs every month.

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The only CI/CD tool designed with developer experience in mind