Buildkite Discontinues Free Plan and Increases Pro Plan Price by 50% Amid Major Pricing Restructure
What happened
Between the Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025 captures of Buildkite's pricing page, Pulse recorded 10 changes: 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). Pulse files it as a pricing change (plan removed, threshold removed, price increase, package change, feature added, new add-on, metric change) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 19, 2026) lists Enterprise at $3.5, Pro at $30, Mac M4 Medium Hosted Agent at $0.18 per minute, Linux Small Hosted Agent at $0.01 per minute and Mac M4 Large Hosted Agent at $0.36 per minute.
Buildkite's previous recorded change was "Buildkite Transitions to Volume-Based Pricing Model for Enterprise Plan, Enhancing Flexibility and Customization" (Q2 2024). Before that Pulse recorded "Buildkite Enhances Security with Signed Pipelines Feature for All Plans" (Dec 2023). Buildkite has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window GitHub, Aws and GitLab also changed their Software Development & Testing pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · PlanRemoved- no longer availableNo - no longer available
- Pro · LimitRemovedJob minutes metricNo Job minutes metric
- Pro · Price+50%$20/user/month$30/user/month
- — · PackagingPackage change
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
- — · FeatureAdded
BeforeNo Mobile Delivery Cloud product
AfterMobile Delivery Cloud product
- — · Add-onAdded
BeforeNot listed
AfterPackage Registries storage add-on
- Pro · Pricing modelRewordedper userper active user
- — · Add-onAdded
BeforeNot listed
AfterTest Engine managed tests add-on
- — · Add-onAdded
BeforeNot listed
AfterPipelines concurrent agents add-on
- Pro · LimitRemoved
BeforeTest executions metric
AfterNo Test executions metric
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Plan | - no longer available | No - no longer available | Removed |
| Pro | Limit | Job minutes metric | No Job minutes metric | Removed |
| Pro | Price | $20/user/month | $30/user/month | +50% |
| — | Packaging | 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 | Package change | |
| — | Feature | No Mobile Delivery Cloud product | Mobile Delivery Cloud product | Added |
| — | Add-on | Not listed | Package Registries storage add-on | Added |
| Pro | Pricing model | per user | per active user | Reworded |
| — | Add-on | Not listed | Test Engine managed tests add-on | Added |
| — | Add-on | Not listed | Pipelines concurrent agents add-on | Added |
| Pro | Limit | Test executions metric | No Test executions metric | Removed |
Values as written on Buildkite's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Buildkite's pricing page (buildkite.com) from Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where pro price reads $20/user/month and then $30/user/month.
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Buildkite, pricing history
Full history- Q4 2025packagingBuildkite Introduces Free Personal Plan with Limited Features and New Model Providers for LLM Requests
- Q2 2025improvedBuildkite Increases Mac M4 Large Price to $0.36 USD/min Amid Enhanced RAM Capacity
- Q1 2025improvedBuildkite Clarifies Pricing Metric to Concurrent Self-Hosted Agents, Enhances Features Across Pro and Enterprise Plans
- Q4 2024packagingBuildkite Discontinues Free Plan and Increases Pro Plan Price by 50% Amid Major Pricing Restructure · this change
- Q2 2024improvedBuildkite Transitions to Volume-Based Pricing Model for Enterprise Plan, Enhancing Flexibility and Customization
- Dec 2023improvedBuildkite Enhances Security with Signed Pipelines Feature for All Plans
Across Software Development & Testing in the same window
All Software Development & Testing changes- GitHubJan 13GitHub Introduces Free Tier for Copilot Add-On: Up to 2,000 Completions and 50 Chat Requests Monthly
- AwsJan 11Aws Kendra Expands Free Tier to Include GenAI Enterprise Edition, Offering 750 Hours for First 30 Days
- GitLabJan 10GitLab Reduces Ultimate Plan Trial Period from 60 to 30 Days, Impacting User Access
Questions about this change
Did Buildkite raise prices in January 2025?
Yes. Pulse captured Buildkite's pricing page on Oct 1, 2024 and again on Jan 1, 2025 and recorded 1 price increase: Pro: $20/user/month → $30/user/month (+50%).
What changed on Buildkite's pricing page between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025?
Plan: - no longer available → No - no longer available, removed; Pro limit: Job minutes metric → No Job minutes metric, removed; Pro price: $20/user/month → $30/user/month (+50%); 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; feature: No Mobile Delivery Cloud product → Mobile Delivery Cloud product, added; add-on: Not listed → Package Registries storage add-on, added; Pro pricing model: per user → per active user, reworded; add-on: Not listed → Test Engine managed tests add-on, added; add-on: Not listed → Pipelines concurrent agents add-on, added; Pro limit: Test executions metric → No Test executions metric, removed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Buildkite change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Buildkite in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Buildkite Transitions to Volume-Based Pricing Model for Enterprise Plan, Enhancing Flexibility and Customization" in Q2 2024; Buildkite has been tracked since 2023-11-14.