"CircleCI will often offer an additional point on the volume discount if you renew your agreement early. This discount will carry over on any credit auto renewals during the term."
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"CircleCI does not have their volume credit discounts outlined. If you push for ranges they will provide them, but you will have to request the volume tiers from them directly."
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"CircleCI charges $15 per user per month after the first three users, plus usage fees based on the number of build minutes compared to GitHub Actions, which charges $0.008 per minute after the first 2000 free minutes"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"CircleCI has changed their top-up % from 10% to 25% of the total credit commitment."
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"CircleCI has changed their discounting from giving free credits to offering a percentage discount on total spend, this generally results in lower discounts. Knowing this, we went into the negotiation with the lowest feasible scope and once the pricing was returned pushed back on the discounts and offered to increase the number of credits purchased by 20% in return for doubling the discount."
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We were open to growing with CircleCI, but they didn't offer any discounting for us to add credits. We decided that instead of paying upfront for credits we didn't really know if we would use, we would just keep auto-refilling once our credits drain so we don't pay for more than what we need. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We merged our contract with a company we acquired and were able to get a better discount on both with more usage. We purchased through AWS Marketplace. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"CircleCI changed their discounting structure from free credits to volume discounts. They held firm to the volume discount despite significant growth citing the long term savings with the discount carrying over to auto-refills. We leveraged executive escalation and CircleCI was willing to offer another point on volume discount for a 12 month renewal."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to keep a flat renewal with free credits, free support, and a discount for annual billing. Our contract value did not allow us to engage in redlines but they were willing to move us to a software agreement as opposed to their standard MSA to get the renewal completed. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to get the auto-renew clause removed upon renewal "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Due to CircleCI's refill policy come renewal, we had more credits than planned and did not need to commit to a whole year of consumption. We leveraged this refill policy to reduce our renewal amount and maintain our existing discount. This allowed us to avoid purchasing too many credits and running the risk of not utilizing them all. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"By holding firm on budget, we were able to decrease our per-credit cost by 12%. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Offered a 4.5% discount for an early signature "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to see significant savings based on language in the previous contract under section 3(i) that stated that as long as the contract renewed at the same or higher usage the effective credit rate would remain the same which mitigated approximately at a 15% increase, additionally Circle agreed to an additional 10% discount for a case study"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to avoid auto-refill with a request to our sales rep while working on an additional purchase of credits. By increasing our purchased amount by 2% and retained our free credit allotment from the previous purchase cycle (15% savings). Purchases done through AWS are not eligible for early contract renewal. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Ensure you are renewing for accurate scope. We were able to right size renewal to actual usage here to save ~$26k from previous year's contract. "
Company with 1-200 employeesA while ago
"We learned that you can downgrade the support to Starter while on the Scale plan."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"CircleCI can be bought directly through AWS, which may be preferred if you have AWS commitments to meet."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We received more bonus credits for agreeing to sign before the end of the month."
Company with 1-200 employeesA while ago
"They will lower your bonus credits if you end up descoping late in the process."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to get a 30% discount by moving from a monthly subscription to an annual contract by end of quarter. They also offered us 25M free credits and waived support fees."
Company with 1-200 employeesA while ago
"We were able to leverage huge growth in usage (375%), our brand, and considering competition from Codeship and Github Actions to get 36% off the proposal from CircleCI."
Company with 1-200 employeesA while ago
"CircleCI will provide incentives for early signature or for purchasing through AWS."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"CircleCI was unwilling to budge on the per-credit price, but did provide discounts in the form of free credits."
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