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- deaddrone ci (cloud.drone.io)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedchecked 2026-11-03
- self-hosted, last resortDrone CI (CI runners)
CI runnersverdict qualifies-with-caveatidentity anonymousno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
- self-hosted, last resortDrone CI (Compute)
Computeverdict qualifies-with-caveatno free tieridentity anonymousno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-30duplicate
docs.drone.io/storage/drone-ciJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- None: cloud.drone.io is not accepting new registrations, with no target date to reopen (vendor support reply, April 2022)
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported5 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- checked 2026-11-03checked 2026-11-03 (inherited)
| Free tier | none: cloud.drone.io is not accepting new registrations, with no target date to reopen (vendor support reply, April 2022) unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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| Reliability | cloud.drone.io is not accepting new registrations, with no target date to reopen (vendor support reply, April 2022); the address still answers and its sign-in hands off to GitHub, so the service is closed to new accounts rather than gone. It is a CI service and documents no storage surface |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | docs.drone.io/ | The hosted cloud service is effectively gone — cloud.drone.io returns 303 with no usable public artifact surface. Drone now ships as self-hosted Community/Enterprise Edition only, so there… |
| 2026-10-21 | cloud.drone.io/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: The hosted cloud service is effectively gone — cloud.drone.io returns 303 with no usable public artifact surface. Drone now ships as self-hosted Community/Enterprise Edition only, so there i |
| 2026-11-03 | drone.discourse.group/t/user-registration-is-disabled-on-clo | the vendor's support reply of 14 April 2022: cloud.drone.io takes no new registrations |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.drone.io/login | the cloud.drone.io sign-in still answers and hands off to a GitHub OAuth sign-in for the cloud.drone.io app |
| 2026-11-03 | probe: cloud.drone.io | cloud.drone.io answers: the root redirects (303) to /welcome, which returns HTTP 200 |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "registration-closed","why": "The hosted cloud service is effectively gone — cloud.drone.io returns 303 with no usable public artifact surface. Drone now ships as self-hosted Community/Enterprise Edition only, so there…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field
www.drone.io/CI softwareci-cd-runners/drone-ciJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- Free software, no hosted lane: the Open Source Edition is Apache 2.0 with no licence fee and is built from source, and the Enterprise Edition image is free for individuals; cloud.drone.io is not accepting new registrations
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedno hosted tier exists, so the path is a self-hosted deployment
- Evidence
- documented14 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | free software, no hosted lane: the Open Source Edition is Apache 2.0 with no licence fee and is built from source, and the Enterprise Edition image is free for individuals; cloud.drone.io is not accepting new registrations unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) no hosted tier exists, so the path is a self-hosted deployment source
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| Identity | anonymous the software needs no account |
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| Egress | not applicable |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: there is no hosted service to cap |
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| Interface | git, cli a server and one or more runners that the user installs; a runner is a standalone daemon that polls the server for pipelines, and the server signs users in through a forge such as GitHub, GitLab, Gitea or Bitbucket |
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| Tooling | the user installs and runs the drone-server (the Enterprise Edition image from Docker Hub, or the Open Source Edition built from source with the oss build tag) and one or more runner daemons on a rented or free machine |
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| Composes with | for a hosted lane, the vendor's support reply points cloud.drone.io users to its hosted Harness CI (ci-cd-runners/harness-ci-free); the self-hosted last resort is Woodpecker, the maintained fork of the same design |
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| Reliability | cloud.drone.io is not accepting new registrations, with no target date to reopen (vendor support reply, April 2022); its sign-in still answers and hands off to GitHub. The vendor keeps Drone as a snapshot branch of harness/harness and presents Harness Open Source as its next generation |
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| Evidence note | documented the editions and their pricing are quoted from docs.drone.io/enterprise and drone.io/enterprise/opensource; the closed registration of cloud.drone.io is quoted from the vendor's support forum, the newest first-party statement found |
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Evidence 14
cloud.drone.ioCI runnercompute/drone-ciJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- Free software, no hosted lane: the Open Source Edition is Apache 2.0 with no licence fee and is built from source, and the Enterprise Edition image is free for individuals; cloud.drone.io is not accepting new registrations
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe missing hosted service fails first: there is no registration path, so the hosted capacity is zero, and the only way to use Drone is to run the server and agents on machines the user supplies.
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-30checked 2026-10-30 (live); stale on 2026-11-30
| Free tier | free software, no hosted lane: the Open Source Edition is Apache 2.0 with no licence fee and is built from source, and the Enterprise Edition image is free for individuals; cloud.drone.io is not accepting new registrations unit none; metered on wall-clock; none-hosted |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The missing hosted service fails first: there is no registration path, so the hosted capacity is zero, and the only way to use Drone is to run the server and agents on machines the user supplies. source
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| Identity | anonymous the software downloads with no account or trial licence; the closed hosted lane cloud.drone.io signs in through GitHub |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | None. It is a piece of software that needs a machine. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | What is gone is the hosted lane, and the two lead a reader to different decisions. The 2022 forum date is also the staleness warning: a 200 on the domain would have read as live to any check that did not look for a registration path. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | cloud.drone.io | HTTP 200 with a Cloudflare front, and no registration route |
| 2026-10-22 | drone.discourse.group/t/user-registration-is-disabled-on-clo | 'Unable to register with my github account on cloud.drone.io', posted 13 April 2022, and the thread title is the maintainers' own statement of the state |
| 2026-10-22 | www.drone.io/ | 'Drone is a self-service Continuous Integration platform for busy development teams' with pipelines running in containers; the site sells the software and offers no hosted tier |
| 2026-10-22 | api.github.com/repos/harness/drone | the repository now describes Harness Open Source as 'an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries', last pushed 2026-10-22 |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.drone.io/enterprise/ | the Open Source Edition is free software under Apache 2.0 |
| 2026-10-30 | www.drone.io/enterprise/opensource | drone.io lists the open-source edition's pricing as Free, licence Apache 2.0 |
| 2026-10-30 | www.drone.io/ | the software downloads with no account, sales contact or trial licence |
| 2026-10-30 | drone.discourse.group/t/user-registration-is-disabled-on-clo | cloud.drone.io takes no new registrations, so no hosted capacity is reachable |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "ci-runner-capacity","free_tier_kind": "none-hosted","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field