Buildkite Clarifies Pricing Metric to Concurrent Self-Hosted Agents, Enhances Features Across Pro and Enterprise Plans
What happened
Between the Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025 captures of Buildkite's pricing page, Pulse recorded 5 changes: Pricing metric terminology clarified from 'concurrent agents' to 'concurrent self-hosted agents' to distinguish from hosted agents; Audit logging feature renamed to Activity log in Enterprise plan; 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; User activity audit replaced with Inactive user list feature in Enterprise plan. Pulse files it as a packaging change (metric change, feature change, feature added) 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 Discontinues Free Plan and Increases Pro Plan Price by 50% Amid Major Pricing Restructure" (Q4 2024). 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.
- — · Pricing modelReworded
Beforeconcurrent agents
Afterconcurrent self-hosted agents
- Enterprise · FeatureRenamedAudit logging featureActivity log
- Pro, Enterprise · FeatureAdded
BeforeNo Test splitting feature
AfterTest splitting feature
- Enterprise, Pro · FeatureChanged
BeforeEnterprise-only
Afterboth Pro and Enterprise plans
- Enterprise · FeatureFeature change
User activity audit replaced with Inactive user list feature in Enterprise plan
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Pricing model | concurrent agents | concurrent self-hosted agents | Reworded |
| Enterprise | Feature | Audit logging feature | Activity log | Renamed |
| Pro, Enterprise | Feature | No Test splitting feature | Test splitting feature | Added |
| Enterprise, Pro | Feature | Enterprise-only | both Pro and Enterprise plans | Changed |
| Enterprise | Feature | User activity audit replaced with Inactive user list feature in Enterprise plan | Feature change | |
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 Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where "concurrent agents" becomes "concurrent self-hosted agents".
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Buildkite, the last 90 days
Full history- Apr 1, 2026improvedBuildkite Launches Test Engine Workflows, Overhauls API Token Security
- 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 · this change
- Q4 2024packagingBuildkite Discontinues Free Plan and Increases Pro Plan Price by 50% Amid Major Pricing Restructure
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 April 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: metric change, feature change, feature added.
What changed on Buildkite's pricing page between Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025?
Pricing model: concurrent agents → concurrent self-hosted agents, reworded; Enterprise feature: Audit logging feature → Activity log, renamed; Pro, Enterprise feature: No Test splitting feature → Test splitting feature, added; Enterprise, Pro feature: Enterprise-only → both Pro and Enterprise plans, changed; User activity audit replaced with Inactive user list feature in Enterprise plan. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Buildkite change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Buildkite in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Buildkite Discontinues Free Plan and Increases Pro Plan Price by 50% Amid Major Pricing Restructure" in Q4 2024; Buildkite has been tracked since 2023-11-14.