Pricing

The All Access Trial gives every new Buildkite signup 30 days of full platform access — Pipelines, Test Engine, Package Registries, and Hosted Agents — with no credit card required. You get a dedicated Developer Success Engineer to help you get started and can request additional features or capacity at any time.

At the end of your evaluation, you choose how to continue: move to the free Personal plan, enter a credit card to stay on Pro (billing starts 30 days after card entry), or reach out to Sales for Enterprise. If you take no action, your org goes inactive — builds are blocked, pipelines become read-only, but your data is retained.

No. The All Access Trial is completely free for 30 days with no credit card required. You only enter payment details if you choose to upgrade to Pro after your evaluation.

Yes. Contact your DSE or reach out to Sales at any time during your evaluation to discuss Enterprise features, custom pricing, or a dedicated proof-of-concept.

You get 2,000 vCPU minutes on Linux AMD64 (with 24 vCPU concurrency) and 1,500 vCPU minutes on macOS M4 (with 12 vCPU concurrency). Minutes are shared across agent shapes — for example, 1,000 minutes on Linux Small or 500 minutes on Linux Medium. You also get unlimited self-hosted agents.

DSE stands for Developer Success Engineer. Your DSE is a dedicated Buildkite team member assigned to your organization during the evaluation period. They help with onboarding, pipeline setup, CI migration, and can unlock additional features or increase your hosted agent limits on request.

Yes. Your DSE can adjust hosted minutes, concurrent agent limits, CPU shape access, Mac agent access, and managed test limits for your evaluation org. Your DSE can also extend the 30-day evaluation period. Adding features, extending limits, and extending your trial are subject to light verification.

A build agent runs on your infrastructure or on Buildkite-hosted compute, and runs one build job at a time. You can run as many agents as you want, in the same or separate queues, and Buildkite will coordinate the work between them. Agents can be securely and reliably deployed across different networks and environments.

Active users are unique users that access the Buildkite system in any given month. Accessing the system includes logging into Buildkite.com, interacting with the Buildkite API, or triggering a build.

We use a 95th percentile (P95) billing method for self-hosted agent usage. This approach ensures fair billing by focusing on your typical usage while disregarding occasional spikes.

To accomplish this, we measure your self-hosted agent usage daily, and at month's end, ignore the top 5%. This provides a more stable and predictable billing experience, and reflects your consistent usage patterns rather than rare peak events.

Buildkite hosted agents are not subject to concurrent agent usage fees.

Buildkite Test Engine uniquely identifies each test by its combination of test suite, scope, and name. These “managed tests” are used to power Test Engine’s analytics, as well as to provide a stable basis for billing purposes.

We use a 90th percentile (P90) billing method for managed tests. This approach encourages continuous improvement of your testing practices while maintaining predictable costs.

To accomplish this, Buildkite measures usage by calculating the number of managed tests that have executed (run) at least once each day, and at month's end, disregard the top 10%. By disregarding the highest usage days, you can freely add new tests, experiment with different testing strategies, or temporarily increase test coverage without worrying about billing spikes.

For Package Registries, cost per GB for storage and bandwidth decreases with increasing usage volume.

50GB of storage and bandwidth (combined) per month is always included with Buildkite platform access. Then, additional usage is billed at:

• Tier 1: 1,000GB @ US$1.25 per GB
• Tier 2: 2,500GB @ US$1.00 per GB
• Tier 3: 5,000GB @ US$0.75 per GB
• Tier 4: 20,000GB @ US$0.50 per GB
• Tier 5: 50,000GB @ US$0.25 per GB

Additional volume-based discounts are available to Enterprise customers. Contact us to learn more.

Buildkite Pipelines includes free storage for small, short-lived artifacts—up to 5GB per artifact, retained for six months. Buildkite Package Registries is a paid solution for longer-lived artifacts with more advanced features to support greater scaling, security, and distribution needs.

There are no limits when using self-hosted agents and the Buildkite SaaS platform. Buildkite handles upwards of 100,000 concurrent agents from some customers.

Concurrency limits will apply by default for all organizations using Buildkite hosted compute. Contact us for custom limits.

If you’d like to discuss transitioning to the new pricing plans, or have any questions at all, please email support@buildkite.com or talk to your Enterprise Customer Success Manager.