Buildkite vs env0 Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Personal
- Self-hosted agents
- Active users
- Build retention
- Waterfall view
- Pause queues
- Job retries report
- Test executions
- Workflows
- Real-time flaky test identification
- Test suite insights
- Test ownership
- Team reporting
- Test splitting
- Storage & bandwidth
- Registries
- Private registries
- Linux vCPU minutes
- Linux vCPU concurrency
- Linux shapes
- Git mirror volumes
- Custom agent images
- Team permissions
- GitHub auth
Pro
- Self-hosted agents
- Active users
- Build retention
- Waterfall view
- Pause queues
- Job retries report
- GitHub Enterprise support
- Bitbucket Server support
- Managed tests
- Test executions
- Workflows
- Real-time flaky test identification
- Test suite insights
- Test ownership
- Team reporting
- Test splitting
- Test state management
- Auto-quarantine
- Storage & bandwidth
- Registries
- Private registries
- Remote dependency mirroring
- Arbitrary files
- Large packages
- Linux vCPU minutes
- Linux vCPU concurrency
- Linux shapes
- M4 Mac vCPU minutes
- M4 Mac vCPU concurrency
- M4 Mac shapes
- Git mirror volumes
- Custom agent images
- Cache volumes
- Team permissions
- GitHub auth
- Signed pipelines
- Single sign on
- API access overview
- Priority email support
Enterprise
- Self-hosted agents
- Active users
- Build retention
- Waterfall view
- Pause queues
- Job retries report
- GitHub Enterprise support
- Bitbucket Server support
- Historical build exports
- Pipeline templates
- Managed tests
- Test executions
- Workflows
- Real-time flaky test identification
- Test suite insights
- Test ownership
- Team reporting
- Test splitting
- Test state management
- Auto-quarantine
- Data warehouse export (Coming soon)
- Storage & bandwidth
- Registries
- Private registries
- Remote dependency mirroring
- Arbitrary files
- Large packages
- Branded endpoints
- Virtual registries
- Software (SLSA) provenance
- License checks
- Threat scanning
- Linux vCPU minutes
- Linux vCPU concurrency
- Linux shapes
- M4 Mac vCPU minutes
- M4 Mac vCPU concurrency
- M4 Mac shapes
- Git mirror volumes
- Custom agent images
- Cache volumes
- Internal container registry
- Remote Docker builds
- Team permissions
- Member permissions
- System banners
- GitHub auth
- Signed pipelines
- Single sign on
- API access overview
- SCIM, custom SAML & ADFS
- Private log storage
- Activity log
- Inactive user list
- Inactive API token revocation
- SSO session IP address pinning
- Priority email support
- Invoice payment
- Consolidated billing
env zero Cloud Compass
- Track IaC coverage
- Auto-Assess Risk
- IaC Code Generator
- Basic Drift Cause
- Drift Risk
- IaC Coverage Tracking
- Risk Assessment
- Email Support
env zero Cloud Navigator
- IaC automation & GitOps
- Basic Drift management (detection, cause, code-to-cloud redeployment)
- Managed self-service
- Basic visibility & dashboards
- Private registry
- Access controls (RBAC)
- Governance & Compliance
- Ready-to-use policies
- Basic integrations
- IaC Coverage Tracking
- Risk Assessment
- IaC Code Generator
- GitOps Workflows
- Deploy from PR Comments
- Custom Workflows
- Workflows
- Self-hosted Source Control (inc. Bitbucket, GitLab & GitHub)
- Drift Detection and Alerting
- Drift Cause Analysis
- Drift Remediation: Update your cloud
- Environment Discovery
- Slack/Teams and Email Notifications
- Environment Scheduling
- Environment Time to Live (TTL)
- Custom TTL Policies
- Cost Estimation (via Infracost)
- Monitoring Dashboards
- Deployment & Audit Log Forwarding
- Audit Logs
- Remote State Storage
- Remote Plan
- Remote Apply
- Self-hosted Remote State
- Private Module Registry
- Private Provider Registry
- Module Testing
- Role-Based Access Control
- OpenID Connect
- SAML Integration
- Team Synchronization from SAML
- Environment-Level Access
- Custom RBAC Roles
- Custom Approval Policies
- Access to SOC 2 Report
- Self-hosted Agent
- API Keys
- Plugins
- Terraform/OpenTofu Provider
- Email Support
- Dedicated POC Support
- Shared Slack/Teams Channel
env zero Cloud Pilot
- Cloud Analyst (AI agent & dashboards)
- Advanced Drift Cause Analysis, Remediation, & Monitoring
- Cost Management
- Self-hosted VCS
- Proof-of-Value Guarantee
- Advanced integrations into existing tools
- IaC Coverage Tracking
- Risk Assessment
- IaC Code Generator
- GitOps Workflows
- Deploy from PR Comments
- Custom Workflows
- Workflows
- Self-hosted Source Control (inc. Bitbucket, GitLab & GitHub)
- Drift Detection and Alerting
- Drift Cause Analysis
- Drift Monitoring Dashboard
- Drift Remediation: Update your cloud
- Drift Remediation: Update your code
- Environment Discovery
- Slack/Teams and Email Notifications
- Environment Scheduling
- Environment Time to Live (TTL)
- Custom TTL Policies
- Cost Estimation (via Infracost)
- Actual Cost Visibility
- Centralized Cost Tagging Controls
- Cost Alerts
- Budget Thresholds
- Monitoring Dashboards
- Deployment & Audit Log Forwarding
- Audit Logs
- Cloud Analyst (AI-powered insights)
- AI Summary
- Remote State Storage
- Remote Plan
- Remote Apply
- Self-hosted Remote State
- Private Module Registry
- Private Provider Registry
- Module Testing
- Role-Based Access Control
- OpenID Connect
- SAML Integration
- Team Synchronization from SAML
- Environment-Level Access
- Custom RBAC Roles
- Custom Approval Policies
- Access to SOC 2 Report
- Self-hosted Agent
- API Keys
- Plugins
- Terraform/OpenTofu Provider
- IDP
- FinOps
- Observability
- PAC/SAST
- Email Support
- Dedicated POC Support
- Shared Slack/Teams Channel
- Enterprise SLA
- env zero POC Guarantee
Buildkite vs env0 FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Buildkite starts lower at $30/mo, compared to $1500/mo for env0.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Buildkite has a free plan. env0 doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Buildkite uses per-seat pricing, while env0 goes with usage-based. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Buildkite: At $30/seat, they're mid-market — not undercutting GitHub Actions or CircleCI's entry points, but not charging Harness-level enterprise premiums either. They're going after teams that have outgrown basic CI but aren't ready to negotiate six-figure contracts. env0: At $1,500/month floor with no free plan, they're not fishing for scrappy startups — this is a mid-market and enterprise play competing with Terraform Cloud Business and Spacelift. They're positioning as a serious IaC orchestration platform, not a hobbyist tool, and the marketplace availability on AWS, Azure, and GCP signals they're targeting buyers with existing cloud spend commitments.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Buildkite and env0 and let you know when something moves.