Buildkite is a CI/CD platform where teams define build and test pipelines in YAML and the work runs on agents the customer hosts or agents Buildkite manages.
Buildkite is a CI/CD platform where teams define build and test pipelines in YAML and the work runs on agents the customer hosts or agents Buildkite manages.
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It also offers Test Engine for flaky-test detection and test splitting, Package Registries for asset management, and agentic workflow components that connect LLM tools to pipeline data.
Best for
Mid-size to large engineering organizations that run their own compute and want CI/CD orchestration with control over the build environment, including monorepo, Bazel, MLOps, and test-heavy teams.
Pricing
Free plan is $0 with up to 5 users, 10 concurrent jobs, 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes per month, 250k test executions per month, and 30-day build retention.
More detail
Pro is $30 per active user per month with up to 50 users, up to 250 concurrent agents (10 included, then $3.50 per agent per month), 4,000 Linux AMD
Main limitation
Very small or solo teams put off by per-active-user pricing and concurrency caps on the Free plan, and organizations that want a fully turnkey managed CI with no infrastructure of their own.
Buildkite is a CI/CD platform where teams define build and test pipelines in YAML and the work runs on agents the customer hosts or agents Buildkite manages.
It also offers Test Engine for flaky-test detection and test splitting, Package Registries for asset management, and agentic workflow components that connect LLM tools to pipeline data.