Buildkite vs Pulumi 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
Individual
- 1 user
- IaC state management
- Unlimited projects, stacks, and environments
- Unlimited updates and history
- Up to 500 workflow minutes
- Pulumi Neo with 5M free tokens/month
Team
- Up to 10 users
- Secure collaboration and CI/CD
- Neo code reviews and Slack integration
- Resource search
- OIDC and org access tokens
- Webhooks
- Automatic secrets rotation
- Community support
Enterprise
Popular- Unlimited users
- SAML/SSO and RBAC
- Neo scheduled tasks
- Internal developer platform (IDP)
- Audit logs
- Drift detection and remediation
- Time-to-live stacks
- Customer-managed keys
- Priority feature requests
- 12x5 Enterprise Support available
Business Critical
- Self-hosting available
- Built-in compliance (NIST, PCI, and more)
- Automatic group & user sync (SCIM)
- Audit logs export
- Volume pricing and invoicing
- Private Slack and Professional Services
- 24x7 Enterprise Support available
Buildkite vs Pulumi FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Buildkite starts lower at $30/mo, compared to $40/mo for Pulumi.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Both offer free plans, so you can try each without paying. Start with whichever fits your workflow better and upgrade when you hit the limits.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Buildkite uses per-seat pricing, while Pulumi goes with hybrid. 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. Pulumi: Pulumi is positioning as a premium alternative to Terraform — more developer-friendly, cloud-agnostic, and priced to reflect that. At $40/mo for Team they're accessible, but the per-resource-hour billing means costs can climb fast at scale, putting them closer to mid-market than budget territory.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Buildkite and Pulumi and let you know when something moves.