Buildkite (hosted agents)
Australian CI/CD platform, mostly self-hosted agents, with Buildkite-hosted Linux and macOS agents billed per vCPU-minute.
The per-user fee is the main cost here: Pro is $30 per active user per month, up to 50 users, and covers self-hosted agents at no extra charge. Hosted Linux agents are billed at $0.004 per vCPU-minute, so a Small 2 vCPU agent is $0.008/min, and Pro includes 4,000 vCPU-minutes. Teams with their own compute get the most from it, while fully hosted use costs more per minute than Blacksmith or Ubicloud. Hosted agent regions aren't documented, and Enterprise has a 30-user minimum.
- Headquarters
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- subscription
- Free tier
- Free plan up to 5 users and 2,000 Linux vCPU-minutes/month of hosted agents.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- buildkite.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Modeled rates
Pricing
Published rates converted using workload assumptions. Read the notes. Assumes ten active users and a 2 vCPU Linux agent. Existing platform-seat costs may not be incremental runner costs. How to read these estimates.
| Plan | Base fee / month | Build minute |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0.008 |
| Pro (10 users) | $300 | $0.008 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
Free
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included build minutes / month
- 1,000
- Build minute
- $0.008
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 1,000 linux build minutes / month
Pro (10 users)
- Base fee / month
- $300
- Included build minutes / month
- 2,000
- Build minute
- $0.008
Hosted Linux agents cost $0.004 per vCPU-minute; Small (2 vCPU, 4 GB) $0.008/min, Medium (4 vCPU, 16 GB) $0.016, Large (8 vCPU, 32 GB) $0.032. Free: up to 5 users and 2,000 Linux vCPU-minutes (1,000 Small-agent minutes). Pro: $30 per active user/month (mandatory, modelled with 10 users, up to 50), includes 4,000 Linux vCPU-minutes (2,000 Small minutes). Enterprise is custom with a 30-user minimum. Self-hosted agents are included in the per-user price. Hosted agent regions aren't documented. Buildkite Pty Ltd, Melbourne; DPA at buildkite.com/about/legal/dpa/.
Managed alternatives
At 50,000 Linux build minutes / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Buildkite (hosted agents): $8,208/yr estimated.
- Ubicloud (GitHub Actions runners): $720/yr estimated · $7,488/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Namespace: $1,200/yr estimated · $7,008/yr bill differenceEstimated ratesDeveloper uses the overage rate because a separate pay-as-you-go rate is not published. Memory-heavy runners cost more.
- Blacksmith: $2,256/yr estimated · $5,952/yr bill differencePublished rates
- WarpBuild: $2,400/yr estimated · $5,808/yr bill differencePublished rates
- GitHub Actions (hosted runners): $2,520/yr estimated · $5,688/yr bill differenceModeled ratesAssumes ten platform seats. Existing seats are not an incremental runner cost; included minutes depend on the plan.
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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