6 free alternatives to Buddy

Buildkite's free Personal plan gives you 3 concurrent jobs, 1 active user, 90-day build retention, 50k test executions per month, 1GB of package storage and bandwidth, and 500 Linux hosted agent minutes per month. It also includes community support, Docker and GitHub auth, private orbs, custom agent images, and both hosted and self-hosted agent support. That makes it broader than Buddy on CI workflow variety and testing allowance, while still staying free forever with no credit card and no expiry. It falls short on sandbox-style compute, where Buddy gives explicit CPU-minutes and GB-hours instead of Buildkite's narrower hosted-agent minute pool. Switch if your main need is running and coordinating CI jobs rather than using sandbox environments.

• Beats Buddy: More concurrent jobs and a much larger test execution allowance.
• Falls short: No sandbox CPU-minute or GB-hour allowance like Buddy.
• Who should switch: Switch if you want a broader CI runner setup with more job concurrency and test volume.

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CircleCI's free tier includes up to 30,000 credits per month, up to 5 active users, access to Docker, Windows, Linux, Arm, and macOS environments, 30 concurrent job runs for Docker, Linux VM, Arm VM, and Windows VM, 1 concurrent macOS job run, 2 GB of storage, and 5 concurrent self-hosted runner tasks. It also includes Docker layer caching, private orbs, deploys, and community support. Compared with Buddy, this is a much wider environment mix and far more concurrency, which is useful when you need different execution targets rather than a single pipeline lane. It falls short on Buddy's explicit sandbox compute allowances, so it is less directly focused on build sandbox consumption. Switch if environment variety and parallel job volume matter more than sandbox quotas.

• Beats Buddy: Broader execution environments and much higher concurrency.
• Falls short: No explicit sandbox CPU-minute or GB-hour allowance.
• Who should switch: Switch if you need multiple OS targets or lots of parallel CI runs.

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DeployHQ's free plan includes 3 deployments per day, 1 project, 5 servers, 1 concurrent deployment, 30 build minutes, 1 user, auto-deploy on push, zero downtime deployments, API access, team management, custom domains, SSO, and support. That is a strong fit for deployment automation rather than general CI runtime, and it is more generous than Buddy on deployment-oriented features like project and server management. It falls short on raw build and sandbox capacity, where Buddy offers more explicit execution allowance through pipeline GB-minutes and sandbox quotas. If your work is mostly shipping code to servers or cloud targets, DeployHQ can feel closer to the job. Switch if you need deployment controls more than build-room headroom.

• Beats Buddy: Stronger deployment-oriented feature set and more deployment-specific workflow tooling.
• Falls short: Much smaller build-time allowance and no sandbox compute quota.
• Who should switch: Switch if your main use case is deployment automation, not CI sandbox usage.

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Azure DevOps gives the first 5 users free for Basic access, plus 1 Microsoft-hosted CI/CD parallel job with 1,800 minutes per month, 1 self-hosted CI/CD parallel job with unlimited minutes per month, 2 GiB of Azure Artifacts storage, Azure Boards, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos with unlimited private Git repositories, and stakeholder access to view dashboards and wikis. It is a larger platform than Buddy in terms of planning, repositories, and artifacts, and the free user count is much more team-friendly. It falls short on Buddy's sandbox-specific quotas and does require a credit card, so the tradeoff is breadth over frictionless sign-up. Switch if you want one system for repos, boards, artifacts, and pipelines.

• Beats Buddy: More free users and a broader DevOps platform footprint.
• Falls short: Requires a credit card and does not offer Buddy-style sandbox quotas.
• Who should switch: Switch if you want planning, repos, artifacts, and pipelines in one free workspace.

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Bitbucket's free cloud plan includes up to 5 users per workspace, 1 GB total workspace storage, 50 build minutes per month, 1 GB Git LFS storage, unlimited private repositories, unlimited pull request reviewers, Jira integration, CI/CD with Bitbucket Pipelines, merge checks, dynamic CI/CD pipelines, and community-only support. That is a good fit when your workflow starts with Git hosting and code review, then extends into light CI. It beats Buddy on repository collaboration and private repo handling, but it falls short on execution and sandbox headroom, where Buddy's free tier is much larger in raw compute-style allowances. It also requires a credit card. Switch if source control and review are the center of your workflow.

• Beats Buddy: Better Git hosting and code review foundation with unlimited private repositories.
• Falls short: Smaller build allowance and no sandbox CPU-minute or GB-hour quota.
• Who should switch: Switch if your free-tier priority is repository collaboration plus light CI.

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Deployment's free tier includes 1 user account, up to 10 jobs per month, unlimited static sites, unlimited web services, unlimited repositories, unlimited environments, custom domains with HTTPS, response headers, logs, Slack notifications, automatic deployments on git push, automatic previews on pull requests, RBAC, and an AI-powered DevOps assistant. It is the most generous of the supplied options on always-free infrastructure-like breadth, especially for web app deployment layouts and unlimited environments. It falls short on Buddy's explicit build and sandbox quotas, so it is less useful if you are buying free compute headroom rather than deployment surface area. Because the free page does not state whether a card is required, that part stays unknown. Switch if you want free deployment structure more than execution quota.

• Beats Buddy: Unlimited environments, repositories, and deployment-facing features.
• Falls short: Only 10 jobs per month and no explicit sandbox compute allowance.
• Who should switch: Switch if you want the widest free deployment surface and can live with very low job volume.

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