Buildkite: Personal→Free rename, Free/Pro plans gain explicit usage caps
What happened
Between the Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026 captures of Buildkite's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Personal plan renamed to Free Plan; Free plan now caps at 5 users/10 jobs/2,000 VCPU-min/250k tests; Pro plan capped at 50 users/250 agents/4,000 VCPU-min/1M tests (both previously unlimited). In detail: 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). Pulse files it as a packaging change (package change) with a neutral 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.
It lands 14 days after Buildkite's previous change, "Buildkite: Model Providers LLM proxy pricing removed" (Aug 10, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Buildkite: Hosted Agents pricing restructured to per-vCPU billing" (Jul 13, 2026), "Buildkite: agent overage +$1.00/mo; new $0/30-day All Access Trial" (Jul 3, 2026) and "Buildkite hikes Pro self-hosted agent overage 40% to $3.50/agent" (Jun 23, 2026). Buildkite has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
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- Personal, Pro · PackagingRenamedPersonal planFree Plan
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal, Pro | Packaging | Personal plan | Free Plan | Renamed |
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 Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where "Personal plan" becomes "Free Plan".
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Buildkite, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 19, 2026packagingBuildkite Pro now lists overage rates for storage and downloads
- Aug 24, 2026packagingBuildkite: Personal→Free rename, Free/Pro plans gain explicit usage caps · this change
- Aug 10, 2026packagingBuildkite: Model Providers LLM proxy pricing removed
- Jul 13, 2026packagingBuildkite: Hosted Agents pricing restructured to per-vCPU billing
- Jul 3, 2026increaseBuildkite: agent overage +$1.00/mo; new $0/30-day All Access Trial
- Jun 23, 2026increaseBuildkite hikes Pro self-hosted agent overage 40% to $3.50/agent
Across Software Development & Testing in the same window
All Software Development & Testing changesQuestions about this change
Did Buildkite raise prices in August 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: package change.
What changed on Buildkite's pricing page between Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026?
Personal, Pro packaging: Personal plan → Free Plan, renamed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Buildkite change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 4 other pricing-page changes for Buildkite in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Buildkite: Model Providers LLM proxy pricing removed" on Aug 10, 2026; Buildkite has been tracked since 2023-11-14.