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Buildkite pricing and limits

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buildkite.com · CI/CD
SEPT 2026 audit

CI/CD built around self-hosted agents by default, with hosted agents available billed per vCPU-minute.

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Entry paid planPro plan: $30 per active user/month.
RegionsBuildkite hosted agents run in a purpose-built private cloud, hosted exclusively in US East Coast data centers. Hosted agents platform only; this page names no other region and does not say where the control plane runs.
Free tierYes
CategoryCI/CD

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 22 criteria comparedSources last checked

Buildkite pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Pro plan: $30 per active user/month source ↗
Pricing model
Hybrid: per-user subscription plus consumption-based pricing for hosted agents, billed per vCPU-minute metered to the second, with no… source ↗
What the free plan includes
A Free plan, or Pro with a 30-day all-access trial source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Buildkite pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Teams that already run their own compute and want a CI product built around that from the start, rather than one that treats self-hosting as an escape hatch from a hosted-minutes model.

Consider something else if…

There's no existing infrastructure to run agents on — the per-user Pro price is separate from and additional to whatever compute the agents themselves need.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Buildkite's own site (buildkite.com) self-detects as: hosting — Cloud Hosting, US hosting, Cloud PaaS, Server Location · CDN — Edge Delivery Network · DNS — Enterprise DNS (category-level via BuiltWith, not a named vendor)

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Buildkite pricing

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Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree tier
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  • Buildkite Pricing ↗

    “Free Plan For solo developers and small teams $ 0 [...] Plan details Up to 5 users Up to 10 concurrent jobs Up to 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes per month Up to 250k test executions per month Dynamic pipelines Community support”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

What the free plan includesA Free plan, or Pro with a 30-day all-access trial. Buildkite no longer publishes the free plan's user and minute limits on this page.
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Credit card to startNo
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Entry paid planPro plan: $30 per active user/month.
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Pricing modelHybrid: per-user subscription plus consumption-based pricing for hosted agents, billed per vCPU-minute metered to the second, with no minimums and no rounding.
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Limits

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Build allowanceUp to 2,000 Linux hosted-agent vCPU minutes a month on Free (Small shape only); 4,000 included on Pro then per-minute rates; volume discounts on Enterprise. vCPU minutes, not job minutes: a job burns its instance shape's vCPU count per minute of runtime.
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Concurrent buildsFree: up to 10 concurrent jobs. Pro: up to 250 concurrent agents, 10 included then $3.50 per agent/month. Enterprise: unlimited, with volume discounts.
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Infrastructure

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RegionsBuildkite hosted agents run in a purpose-built private cloud, hosted exclusively in US East Coast data centers. Hosted agents platform only; this page names no other region and does not say where the control plane runs.
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  • Buildkite hosted agents | Buildkite Documentation ↗

    “Runs in a private cloud, which is purpose built and optimized for CI/CD workloads. [...] Is exclusively hosted in US East Coast data centers, operated by a trusted infrastructure provider, strategically selected to provide optimal performance, reliability and low-latency connectivity to major cloud regions.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

CI/CD

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Max job duration4 hours on the Free plan; unlimited on the Pro and Enterprise plans. This is the maximum time before a running job times out.
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Self-hosted runnersSelf-hosted agents are the default execution model, not an add-on. Free: up to 10 concurrent jobs. Pro: up to 250 agents, 10 included, then $3.50 per agent/month. Enterprise: unlimited.
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  • Buildkite Pricing ↗

    “Self-hosted agents The maximum number of Buildkite agents connected simultaneously. Up to 10 concurrent jobs Up to 250 10 included, then $3.50 agent/month Unlimited Volume discounts”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Price per extra concurrent jobAdditional self-hosted agents beyond the 10 included on Pro: $3.50/agent/month. Hosted Linux agents: $0.004/vCPU-minute; hosted Mac agents: $0.02/vCPU-minute.
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  • Buildkite Pricing ↗

    “10 included, then $3.50 agent/month. Hosted Linux: $0.004 USD per vCPU minute. Mac agents: $0.02 USD per vCPU minute.”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction

Support

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Support on entry paid planPriority email support on Pro, the entry paid plan. Free gets community support; Enterprise adds SLA credits, priority response times and Slack Connect.
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  • Buildkite Pricing ↗

    “Dynamic pipelines Community support [...] Dynamic pipelines Priority email support [...] Access to Enterprise support with SLA credits Priority response times Slack Connect”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

Compliance

9 criteria
SOC 2SOC 2 Type II report, from an independent audit performed annually.
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  • Security — Buildkite ↗

    “Buildkite maintains a SOC 2 Type II report - an independent audit performed annually that verifies the design and operating effectiveness of our security practices including access controls, system monitoring, threat detection, and incident response.”

    Read 2026-09-12 · official site · Report a correction

HIPAANot HIPAA compliant: the Terms of Service say Buildkite is not a Business Associate and bar customers from putting protected health information in the service.
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  • Buildkite Terms of Service | Legal overview | Buildkite ↗

    “Customer specifically agrees not to collect, store, process or transmit any Sensitive Personal Information using the Buildkite Solution. [...] Customer acknowledges that Buildkite is not a Business Associate or subcontractor (as those terms are defined in HIPAA) or a payment card processor and that the Buildkite Solution is neither HIPAA nor PCI DSS compliant.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

GDPR / data residencyServers for the Buildkite service are in the USA; Buildkite Hosted Agents servers may be in the USA or Europe. GDPR applies to EU/UK personal data. The hosted agents docs state US East Coast data centers only; the privacy policy also allows Europe.
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PCI DSSNot PCI DSS compliant: the Terms of Service state Buildkite is not a payment card processor and the Buildkite Solution is neither HIPAA nor PCI DSS compliant.
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Encryption at restAES-256 at rest; TLS 1.2+ in transit.
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Customer-managed keysNo customer-supplied keys: the Enterprise private job log archiving bucket must use SSE-S3, and SSE-KMS encryption is not supported. Read on the private job log archiving page (Enterprise plan; customer-owned S3 bucket, us-east-1 only).
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Role-based access controlTeam-based permissions restricting access to builds, pipelines and organization settings, plus per-job OIDC integration with the customer's own identity provider.
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  • Security — Buildkite ↗

    “Team-based permissions allow you to restrict access to builds, pipelines, and organization settings. Buildkite can integrate with your cloud identity solution at a per job level via OIDC.”

    Read 2026-09-12 · official site · Report a correction

Private networking / VPCAgents connect to the Buildkite platform over regular public internet connections using HTTPS; Buildkite recommends OIDC or IP allowlists rather than VPNs.
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Dedicated infrastructureHosted agent infrastructure is shared across Buildkite customers; dedicated static IP addresses only on request from support. Self-hosting uses your own infra.
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  • Network security | Buildkite Documentation ↗

    “Since the infrastructure of Buildkite hosted agents is shared across Buildkite customers, the IP address ranges for Buildkite hosted agents originate from a common source [...] If you do require dedicated static IP addresses for your hosted agents’ IP addresses, contact Support at”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

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Buildkite pricing questions

How much does Buildkite cost?

Pro plan: $30 per active user/month.

Buildkite Pricing · read

How does Buildkite charge?

Hybrid: per-user subscription plus consumption-based pricing for hosted agents, billed per vCPU-minute metered to the second, with no minimums and no rounding.

Buildkite Pricing · read

Does Buildkite have a free tier?

Yes. A Free plan, or Pro with a 30-day all-access trial. Buildkite no longer publishes the free plan's user and minute limits on this page.

Buildkite Pricing · read

Do you need a credit card to start on Buildkite?

No.

Buildkite Pricing · read

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