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Overview

When you push code to your repository or trigger a Rebuild & Deploy, DCDeploy performs a build process to generate the Docker image for your service.
This process consumes build minutes — the total time taken by DCDeploy’s infrastructure to compile, package, and prepare your application image.

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Current Pricing

  • Unlimited build minutes for all plans.
  • No extra charges are applied for builds.
  • Every build runs on high-performance infrastructure without time restrictions.
This means you can push commits, trigger builds, and redeploy as many times as needed without worrying about build minute limits.

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Future Updates

While build minutes are currently unlimited, DCDeploy may introduce:
  • Plan-based limits (e.g., Free tier with capped minutes, Pro with higher or unlimited).
  • Additional usage-based pricing for extremely heavy workloads.
  • Build caching optimizations to reduce build time and costs.
⚠️ If DCDeploy introduces build minute quotas in the future, you’ll be notified in advance and can review the updated pricing at DCDeploy.com/pricing.

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Best Practices

Even though build minutes are unlimited, it’s good to:
  • Use Docker layer caching to speed up builds.
  • Keep your Dockerfile optimized to reduce build time.
  • Use multi-stage builds for smaller and faster images.
  • Avoid unnecessary rebuilds by using Redeploy when only code/config changes.

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