Pick Depot if
teams who will take the 7-day trial, then stay on Developer at $20 / month while they run a first job graph — and will jump to Startup at $200 / month when they need 20,000 Actions minutes.
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Our take
Pick Depot if teams who will take the 7-day trial, then stay on Developer at $20 / month while they run a first job graph — and will jump to Startup at $200 / month when they need 20,000 Actions minutes. Pick Woodpecker if teams who already run Gitea / Forgejo / GitHub and will stay on the Apache self-host at $0 while they open a first pipeline log, then keep self-hosting because Woodpecker does not print a hosted
Depot
hosted build-and-Actions desk
Woodpecker
open-source CI desk
Best for
Depot Docker / Actions minutes you start at $20
Woodpecker Pipelines you start at $0 on your host
Free plan
Depot No free plan
Woodpecker $0 · apache-2.0. You run the server + one or more agents + a forge. Confirmed by the repo LICENSE (“Apache License / Version 2.0”)
Lowest paid
Depot Overage $0.006
Woodpecker Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Depot Developer $20
Woodpecker
Coding agent
Depot
Woodpecker Pipelines
Runs where
Depot Local or hosted
Woodpecker
Watch out
Depot Developer is 1 user and 500 container minutes
Woodpecker $0 is the license, not the agent VM
Last checked
Depot 2026-10-23 · depot.dev/pricing
Woodpecker 2026-10-23 · github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/blob
Which one, then?
Pick Woodpecker if
teams who already run Gitea / Forgejo / GitHub and will stay on the Apache self-host at $0 while they open a first pipeline log, then keep self-hosting because Woodpecker does not print a hosted Cloud dollar.
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