Pulumi vs Buildkite 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
Pulumi vs Buildkite FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- One or both use custom pricing, so it depends on your specific needs.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Buildkite has a free plan. Pulumi doesn't — you'll need to pay from day one.
- How do they charge?
- Check each product's pricing page for the latest details on how billing works.
- 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.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Pulumi and Buildkite and let you know when something moves.