# Buildkite pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Personal). Among the 7 ci/cd we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** buildkite.com
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Not published · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Not published
**Integrations:** GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Artifactory, Honeycomb
**Best for:** Large engineering orgs needing unlimited parallelism with self-hosted runners; Teams with strict data-residency requirements (agents run in your own infra); Monorepo shops requiring smart incremental build orchestration
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Personal | $0 | — | flat | Free forever, no credit card, no expiry. Max 3 concurrent jobs, 1 user, 90-day log retention. Community support only. Hosted agents available at pay-as-you-go rates (Linux Small $0.013/min, Linux Medium $0.026/min, Mac M4 Medium $0.18/min). | buildkite.com |
| Pro | $30 | — | per_seat | $30 USD per active user/month. Unlimited users and test executions. All agent sizes including Mac M4. 250 managed tests included; $0.10/additional test/month. 20 GB package registry storage; $1.25/GB/month overage. Priority email support, SSO. Hosted agents at same pay-as-you-go rates. | buildkite.com |
| Enterprise | Quote-only | — | custom | Custom pricing, minimum 30 users. Everything in Pro plus volume discounts, SCIM/SAML/ADFS, audit logs, build exports, advanced governance, premium support SLA. | buildkite.com |

**Key features:** Hybrid architecture: self-hosted agents run in your own cloud/infra while control plane is SaaS; No concurrency limits when using self-hosted agents; Monorepo-aware smart scaling: builds only changed components; P95 billing model for hosted compute (ignores occasional spikes); SOC 2 Type II annually audited.

**Plan limits:** Personal (free): 1 user, 3 concurrent jobs, 90-day log retention, community support only; Pro: $30/active user/month, 250 managed tests included ($0.10/additional), 20 GB package storage ($1.25/GB overage); Enterprise: minimum 30 users, custom pricing.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: https://buildkite.com/pricing accessed 2026-06-14; confirmed via second fetch same date. No annual discount published. No HIPAA/BAA information on pricing page.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/ci-cd/buildkite/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Buildkite's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/ci-cd/buildkite/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl