About
Buildkite is a CI/CD platform that runs pipelines on self-hosted or Buildkite-hosted agents. It includes workflow controls such as dynamic pipelines, wait steps, block steps, trigger steps, conditional logic, and LLM integrations, along with separate products for test optimization, package registries, mobile delivery, and agentic workflow components.
The pricing page lists a free Personal plan with 3 concurrent jobs, 1 active user, and 90-day build retention, plus 50k test executions per month in Test Engine, 1GB of package registry storage and bandwidth, and 500 Linux hosted-agent minutes per month. It is aimed at teams that need CI/CD, test management, artifact/package storage, and hosted compute with clear usage limits.
- 3 concurrent jobs on Personal plan
- 1 active user included
- 90-day build retention
- 50k Test Engine executions monthly
- 1GB package storage and bandwidth
- 500 Linux hosted-agent minutes
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable and does not require a credit card, but it is capped: 1 user, 3 concurrent jobs, 500 Linux minutes, 50k test executions, and 1GB of package storage. Compared with the $30/month Pro plan, it delivers roughly half of the practical value for a small individual workflow, so about $15/month is a fair estimate.
What's included in the free tier
- Free forever Personal plan with no credit card and no expiry.
- 3 concurrent jobs across hosted and self-hosted agents.
- 1 active user included.
- 90-day build retention.
- Community support included.
- 50k test executions per month.
- 1 Test Engine workflow included.
- 1GB package storage and bandwidth included.
- Linux hosted agents: 500 minutes per month.
- Linux hosted agents: up to 6 vCPU concurrency.
- Linux hosted agents: Small AMD64 only.
- Git mirror volumes included.
- Custom agent images included.
- Team permissions included.
- GitHub authentication included.
See Buildkite pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro
- active user
- 1
- Linux hosted agent minutes
- 2,000/mo included
- Linux vCPU concurrency
- Up to 24 vCPU
- M4 Mac hosted agent minutes
- 1,500/mo included
- M4 Mac vCPU concurrency
- Up to 12 vCPU
- Package storage & bandwidth
- 20GB included
- Unlimited users and test executions
- All agent sizes + Mac M4
- Cache volumes
- Priority email support
- SSO
Enterprise
- self-hosted agents
- Unlimited
- active users
- Unlimited
- Linux hosted agent minutes
- Volume discounts
- M4 Mac hosted agent minutes
- Volume discounts
- Managed tests
- Volume discounts
- Package storage & bandwidth
- Volume discounts
- Volume discounts
- SCIM/SAML/ADFS
- Audit logs
- Pipeline templates
- Premium support SLA available
Pricing extracted from Buildkite's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
