Azure Pipelines (public project)
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
ci-cd-runners/azure-pipelines-privatesays qualifies-with-caveat, ci-cd-runners/azure-pipelines-public says dead
- Free allowance
- None for a new project: public projects are retired and new ones can no longer be created; existing public projects keep unlimited Microsoft-hosted minutes until they convert to private in 2027, then fall to the 1,800-minute private allocation
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe free grant for public projects is withdrawn for new projects and ends in 2027 for existing ones
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- checked 2026-11-03checked 2026-11-03 (live)
| Free tier | none for a new project: public projects are retired and new ones can no longer be created; existing public projects keep unlimited Microsoft-hosted minutes until they convert to private in 2027, then fall to the 1,800-minute private allocation unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | card not obtainable at all for a new project |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the product is being withdrawn |
| Retention | existing grants end in 2027 |
| Interface | git no new public project can obtain the grant |
| Tooling | not applicable for a new account |
| Composes with | no path for a new account |
| Reliability | a withdrawal rather than an outage; the grant still works until it expires |
| Notes | Any list still counting ten parallel jobs for public projects is describing a closed product. Only the public-project grant is dead: the private-project grant of the same service, 1,800 free minutes a month on one Microsoft-hosted parallel job, is a live offer recorded in ci-cd-runners/azure-pipelines-private and compute/azure-pipelines. |
| Evidence note | documented the hosted-agents doc was read and states the retirement. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/host | the free grant for public projects is no longer available to new projects, and existing grants end in 2027 |
| 2026-10-30 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/project | the public-project grant is closed to new projects |
| 2026-11-03 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/host | the private-project grant of the same service is 1,800 free minutes a month, a live offer |
| 2026-11-03 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/host | existing public projects keep their free grant until the 2027 conversion |
| 2026-11-03 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/project | public projects have unlimited Microsoft-hosted minutes and fall to 1,800 free minutes a month when converted to private |
| 2026-11-03 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/project | the public-project grant is closed to new projects |