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Features
60 features across 22 categories
Access Control(2)
Manage default member permissions, such as disabling pipeline creation
Manage permissions across multiple teams
Analytics(2)
Analyze job retries to understand flakiness and instability across your pipelines
Analyze build dependencies, timelines, and bottlenecks through advanced visualization tools with rich logs and detailed annotations
Audit(2)
Track all user activity within your organization
Audit inactive users and easily remove them
Billing(3)
Consolidated billing and invoicing across multiple accounts
Pay annually or via invoice
Pay only for typical usage while ignoring occasional spikes, removing financial barriers to scaling CI infrastructure
Build(1)
Execute Docker builds remotely for better resource utilization
Communication(1)
Communicate important messages and alerts to your entire organization
Configuration(3)
Use custom Docker images for build agents
Define standard pipeline step configurations to use across your organization
Define workflows in preferred programming languages using the Buildkite SDK with powerful logic and flexibility
Control(2)
Empower teams to independently control their workflows while maintaining organization-wide security and compliance standards
Get more control over when queues dispatch jobs to agents—for example, pausing dispatch for an incident or infrastructure upgrade
Deployment(1)
Choose where and how pipelines run with self-hosted, Buildkite-hosted, or hybrid deployments across Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, and on-premises
Infrastructure(2)
Fully managed Linux compute agents in various sizes (Small, Medium, Large)
Fully managed Mac M4 compute agents (Medium and Large sizes)
Integration(2)
Connect to an on-premise Bitbucket Server instance
Connect to an on-premise GitHub Enterprise instance
Monitoring(2)
Monitor, control, and visualize all pipelines in one dashboard showing health and performance metrics
Rich, searchable logs with quick feedback loops and early failure detection
Optimization(1)
Process only what's changed across your repository, reducing build times and costs for large monorepos
Package Management(10)
Host internal container registry for private image storage
Manage private package registries with storage, bandwidth, and dependency mirroring
Store and manage arbitrary file types in registries
Create branded custom endpoints for package registries
Support for large package files without size restrictions
Automatically check and enforce license compliance for dependencies
Mirror remote dependencies for faster access and reduced external calls
Track and verify software provenance and origin
Scan packages for security threats and vulnerabilities
Set up virtual registries for logical organization and access control
Performance(3)
Persistent cache volumes for faster builds and reduced redundant work
Cache git mirrors for faster repository access and reduced bandwidth
Effortlessly provision unlimited parallel builds with no limits on concurrent jobs
Reporting(1)
Automatically export historical builds older than a year into your own S3 or GCS bucket in JSON format
Scalability(1)
Connect unlimited agents to process workloads at unmatched speeds and scale to thousands of parallel jobs instantly
Security(9)
Inspect your users' API tokens and see how those tokens are being used
Prevent potential security risks created by unused API tokens
Separate workflows based on organization requirements with fine-grained permission controls
Authenticate users via GitHub
Store your job logs in a private S3 bucket
SCIM support for automatic user management and advanced SSO providers
Prompt your users to re-authorize when their origin changes
Prevent unauthorized pipeline modifications by signing step definitions and verifying signatures before running jobs
Connect an SSO provider to simplify and protect access to your organization's data
Support(1)
Priority status for all email support requests
Testing(9)
Automatically assign tests to appropriate teams or owners
Automatically quarantine flaky tests to prevent pipeline blocking
Export test data to data warehouse for advanced analytics (Coming soon)
Identify flaky tests in real-time to improve test reliability
Generate team-level reports on test performance and metrics
Assign ownership to tests for better accountability and tracking
Effortlessly bin pack your test suite across multiple nodes without manual rebalancing
Manage test state across executions for better control
Get comprehensive insights into your test suite performance and metrics
Visualization(1)
See a timeline of your build in a Gantt chart, broken down by job with metrics like duration and dispatch time
Workflow(1)
Construct CI/CD workflows that evolve in real-time to handle dynamic needs of AI-accelerated development
Pricing
Personal
- ✓3 concurrent jobs (hosted+self-hosted)
- ✓50k test executions/mo
- ✓1GB storage & bandwidth (combined)
- ✓500 minutes/month hosted agents
- ✓1 active user
- ✓90 days build retention
- ✓Waterfall view
- ✓Pause queues
- ✓Job retries report
- ✓Real-time flaky test identification
- ✓Test suite insights
- ✓Test ownership
- ✓Auto assignment
- ✓Team reporting
- ✓Test splitting
- ✓Registries
- ✓Private registries
- ✓Team permissions
- ✓GitHub auth
- ✓Git mirror caching
- ✓Custom image support
- ✓Community support
Pro
Popular- ✓Unlimited self-hosted agents
- ✓10 included concurrent agents, then $2.50 USD per agent/mo
- ✓Unlimited test executions
- ✓250 managed tests per org/mo, then $0.10 per managed test/mo
- ✓20GB storage & bandwidth combined, then $1.25/GB/mo
- ✓2,000 minutes/month hosted agents
- ✓Unlimited active users
- ✓1 year build retention
- ✓Waterfall view
- ✓Pause queues
- ✓Job retries report
- ✓GitHub Enterprise support
- ✓Bitbucket Server support
- ✓Real-time flaky test identification
- ✓Test suite insights
- ✓Test ownership
- ✓Auto assignment
- ✓Team reporting
- ✓Test splitting
- ✓Test state management
- ✓Auto-quarantine
- ✓Registries
- ✓Private registries
- ✓Remote dependency mirroring
- ✓Arbitrary files
- ✓Large packages
- ✓Team permissions
- ✓GitHub auth
- ✓Signed pipelines
- ✓Single sign-on (SSO)
- ✓API access overview
- ✓Git mirror caching
- ✓Custom image support
- ✓Cache volumes
- ✓Linux Small hosted agents at $0.013/minute
- ✓Linux Medium hosted agents at $0.026/minute
- ✓Linux Large hosted agents at $0.052/minute
- ✓Mac M4 Medium hosted agents at $0.18/minute
- ✓Mac M4 Large hosted agents at $0.36/minute
- ✓Up to 48 vCPU Linux concurrency
- ✓Up to 24 vCPU Mac M4 concurrency
- ✓Priority email support
- ✓30-day free trial
Enterprise
- ✓Unlimited self-hosted agents with volume discounts
- ✓Unlimited test executions
- ✓Managed tests with volume discounts
- ✓Storage & bandwidth with volume discounts
- ✓Hosted agents with volume discounts
- ✓Unlimited active users
- ✓1 year build retention
- ✓Waterfall view
- ✓Pause queues
- ✓Job retries report
- ✓GitHub Enterprise support
- ✓Bitbucket Server support
- ✓Historical build exports
- ✓Pipeline templates
- ✓Real-time flaky test identification
- ✓Test suite insights
- ✓Test ownership
- ✓Auto assignment
- ✓Team reporting
- ✓Test splitting
- ✓Test state management
- ✓Auto-quarantine
- ✓Data warehouse export (Coming soon)
- ✓Registries
- ✓Private registries
- ✓Remote dependency mirroring
- ✓Arbitrary files
- ✓Large packages
- ✓Branded endpoints
- ✓Virtual registries
- ✓Software provenance
- ✓License checks
- ✓Threat scanning
- ✓Team permissions
- ✓Member permissions
- ✓System banners
- ✓GitHub auth
- ✓Signed pipelines
- ✓Single sign-on (SSO)
- ✓API access overview
- ✓SCIM, custom SAML & ADFS
- ✓Private log storage
- ✓Activity log
- ✓Inactive user list
- ✓API token expiry policies
- ✓Session IP address pinning
- ✓Git mirror caching
- ✓Custom image support
- ✓Cache volumes
- ✓Internal container registry
- ✓Remote Docker builds
- ✓Linux hosted agents with volume discounts
- ✓Mac M4 hosted agents with volume discounts
- ✓Custom Linux concurrency
- ✓Custom Mac M4 concurrency
- ✓Priority email support
- ✓Invoice payment
- ✓Consolidated billing
- ✓Advanced governance & control
- ✓Custom SCIM, SAML, ADFS
- ✓User & API activity audit logs
- ✓Build exports
- ✓Premium support with SLA
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Integrations
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