Buildkite alternatives
Every CI/CD provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Buildkite's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Buildkite's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- CircleCIvs BuildkiteEntry paid plan: Performance plan: starting at $15/month, including 30,000 free credits plus additional pa…
- GitHub Actionsvs BuildkiteEntry paid plan: GitHub Team: $4 USD per user/month (Free $0, Enterprise $21 USD per user/month).
Where Buildkite stands against these 2
Buildkite's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 2 of the 2 alternatives that document it have one: CircleCI, GitHub Actions.
- Concurrent builds
- Free: up to 10 concurrent jobs3rd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: CircleCI — 30 concurrent job runs on Free, 80 on Performance, unlimited on Scale; macOS VM concurrency is 1 / 15 / custom.
- Max job duration
- 4 hours on the Free plan; unlimited on the Pro and Enterprise plans2nd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: GitHub Actions — Up to 6 hours of execution time per job on GitHub-hosted runners.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.