Buildkite Introduces Free Personal Plan with Limited Features and New Model Providers for LLM Requests
What happened
Between the Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026 captures of Buildkite's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: 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. Pulse files it as a packaging change (feature added, new plan) 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 Increases Mac M4 Large Price to $0.36 USD/min Amid Enhanced RAM Capacity" (Q2 2025). Before that Pulse recorded "Buildkite Clarifies Pricing Metric to Concurrent Self-Hosted Agents, Enhances Features Across Pro and Enterprise Plans" (Q1 2025), "Buildkite Discontinues Free Plan and Increases Pro Plan Price by 50% Amid Major Pricing Restructure" (Q4 2024) and "Buildkite Transitions to Volume-Based Pricing Model for Enterprise Plan, Enhancing Flexibility and Customization" (Q2 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.
- Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5 · FeatureAddedNo - proxy- proxy
- Personal · PlanAddedNo Personal planPersonal plan
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5 | Feature | No - proxy | - proxy | Added |
| Personal | Plan | No Personal plan | Personal plan | Added |
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 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; the change is marked in the lower part of the page, where - proxy now appears.
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Buildkite, pricing history
Full history- Apr 13, 2026packagingBuildkite Launches Free 30-Day All Access Trial, Sets 30-User Enterprise Minimum
- Apr 3, 2026packagingBuildkite Renames Security Features and Trims Test Engine Plan
- 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 · this change
- 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
- 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 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: feature added, new plan.
What changed on Buildkite's pricing page between Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026?
Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5 feature: No - proxy → - proxy, added; Personal plan: No Personal plan → Personal plan, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; 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 Increases Mac M4 Large Price to $0.36 USD/min Amid Enhanced RAM Capacity" in Q2 2025; Buildkite has been tracked since 2023-11-14.