Infrastructure & DevOps

CircleCI

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-10 — deterministic & reproducible

CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform for automating software builds and tests.

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Legit.Show scored CircleCI 94/100 on 2026-09-10, measured across 5 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/circleci-com/2026-09-10

Is CircleCI production-ready?

Legit.Show scores CircleCI 94 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on CircleCI (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 70/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 179 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

product account @CircleCI

Who it's for

Developers · Platform engineers · Engineering managers · Enterprise teams · Open source projects

Pricing

Free plan available; paid plans use credits (400,000 credits/month for open source; bulk purchases start at 1 million credits for $600; discounts at 5 million credits for $3,000)

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from circleci.com's own website on 2026-08-03.

Operator

Circle Internet Services, Inc., as named in circleci.com's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-10.

Put together from public information, without CircleCI's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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