Buildkite Discontinues Free Plan and Increases Pro Plan Price by 50% Amid Major Pricing Restructure
What changed
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)
Pro plan increased from $20/user/month to $30/user/month (50% increase)
Pricing model restructured from usage-based (job minutes + test executions) to product-based model with separate pricing for Pipelines, Test Engine, Package Registries, and Mobile Delivery Cloud
Mobile Delivery Cloud product introduced, billed at same rate as hosted agents
Package Registries storage add-on introduced: 20GB storage and bandwidth included, then $1.25 per GB per month
Pro plan pricing unit changed from 'per user' to 'per active user'
Test Engine managed tests add-on introduced: 250 managed tests included, then $0.10 per managed test per month
Pipelines concurrent agents add-on introduced: 10 concurrent agents included, then $2.50 per concurrent agent per month
Test executions metric removed from Pro plan (was 500,000/month)
Before and after
Oct 1, 2024 vs Jan 1, 2025Free plan ($0) discontinued - no longer available as a standalone plan on pricing page
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