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Buildkite

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Buildkite is a hybrid CI/CD platform that combines the speed of cloud with the security of on-premises build agents, allowing teams to run builds faster without compromising security.

Entry price

$3.5

Enterprise · /mo

Plans tracked

8 add-ons

Pricing changes

Latest Wk 35 '26

Pricing model

Subscription + usage

Free tier available

Pricing Change History

13 changes

202613 changes

Aug 24, 2026

Packaging

Weekly

Buildkite: Personal→Free rename, Free/Pro plans gain explicit usage caps

Personal plan renamed to Free Plan; Free and Pro plans now publish explicit usage caps: Free adds 5 users/10 concurrent jobs/2,000 VCPU-min/250k test executions; Pro capped at 50 users/250 agents/4,000 VCPU-min/1M test executions (previously unlimited).

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Aug 10, 2026

Packaging

Weekly

Buildkite: Model Providers LLM proxy pricing removed

"Model Providers" LLM proxy offering removed from pricing page — Anthropic Opus/Sonnet/Haiku input, output, cache-write, and cache-read token pricing no longer listed

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Jul 13, 2026

Packaging

Weekly

Buildkite: Hosted Agents pricing restructured to per-vCPU billing

Hosted Agent pricing moved to per-vCPU-minute billing (Linux $0.004/vCPU-min, Mac $0.02/vCPU-min), lowering effective rates (e.g. Linux Large $0.052->$0.032/min); non-profit/charity discount removed

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Jul 3, 2026

Price increase

Quarterly

Buildkite: agent overage +$1.00/mo; new $0/30-day All Access Trial

Pro plan's self-hosted agent overage price rose from $2.50 to $3.50/agent/mo (+40%) new 'All Access Trial' plan added (full platform unlock, $0 for 30 days, no card)

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Jun 23, 2026

Price increase

Weekly

Buildkite hikes Pro self-hosted agent overage 40% to $3.50/agent

Pro plan self-hosted agent overage rate increased from $2.50 to $3.50 USD/agent/mo (40% increase) for agents beyond the 10 included.

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Apr 13, 2026

Packaging

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Buildkite Launches Free 30-Day All Access Trial, Sets 30-User Enterprise Minimum

Pricing page heading changed from 'Everything you need for best-in-class software delivery' to 'Trial? More like Try All.' Personal plan tagline updated to 'Ship on your own' with bullet-point format.

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Apr 3, 2026

Packaging

Quarterly

Buildkite Renames Security Features and Trims Test Engine Plan

Auto assignment feature removed from Test Engine plan comparison table across all plans. Several security and hosted agent features renamed: 'Git mirror caching' to 'Git mirror volumes'; 'Custom image support' to 'Custom agent images'; 'API token expiry policies' to 'Inactive API token revocation'; 'Session IP address pinning' to 'SSO session IP address pinning'; 'Software provenance' to 'Software (SLSA) provenance'.

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Apr 1, 2026

Improvement

Weekly

Buildkite Launches Test Engine Workflows, Overhauls API Token Security

Test Engine now includes Workflows feature with tiered limits across all plans [Personal: 1 workflow; Pro: 3 workflows; Enterprise: Volume discounts/Unlimited] API token expiry policies replaced with Inactive API token revocation, changing from policy-based expiry to automatic revocation of inactive tokens

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Jan 21, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Buildkite Introduces Free Personal Plan with Limited Features and New Model Providers for LLM Requests

Model Providers feature added - proxy for LLM model requests to Anthropic with pass-through pricing (Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5) Personal plan introduced as a free tier ($0/mo) with limited features including 3 concurrent jobs, 50k test executions, 1GB storage, and 500 minutes of hosted agents

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Jan 21, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Buildkite Increases Mac M4 Large Price to $0.36 USD/min Amid Enhanced RAM Capacity

Mac M4 Medium RAM increased from 14GB to 28GB Mac M4 Large RAM increased from 28GB to 56GB

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Jan 21, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Buildkite Clarifies Pricing Metric to Concurrent Self-Hosted Agents, Enhances Features Across Pro and Enterprise Plans

Test splitting feature added to Test Engine, available in both Pro and Enterprise plans API access overview feature democratized from Enterprise-only to both Pro and Enterprise plans

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Jan 21, 2026

Packaging

Quarterly

Buildkite Discontinues Free Plan and Increases Pro Plan Price by 50% Amid Major Pricing Restructure

Free plan ($0) discontinued - no longer available as a standalone plan on pricing page Job minutes metric removed from Pro plan (was 40,000/month + 12,500 per user)

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Jan 21, 2026

Packaging

Quarterly

Buildkite Transitions to Volume-Based Pricing Model for Enterprise Plan, Enhancing Flexibility and Customization

Enterprise plan restructured from fixed allocations (100,000 job minutes + 25,000 per user, 1,000,000 test executions) to volume-based pricing model Enterprise plan pricing changed from $35/user/month to Custom pricing

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