KiCI

Self-hosted vs SaaS CI/CD

Hosted CI services run your jobs — and hold your source and secrets — on their cloud. KiCI keeps execution on your own infrastructure while still giving you a managed control plane, so your code stays sovereign without you operating a CI server.

KiCI SaaS CI
Where your code & secrets live
Your source and secrets stay on your own sovereign infrastructure; the hosted control plane never receives them
A SaaS CI holds your secrets on its platform (for example GitHub decrypts uploaded Actions secrets to inject them into the run)
Autoscaling compute
A built-in auto-scaler provisions ephemeral agents on demand across Docker/Podman, bare-metal, and Firecracker microVMs — on your own infrastructure
Hosted compute is metered (for example CircleCI bills each resource class at a credits-per-minute price)
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