Our take
Pick BuildBuddy if bazel teams who will stay on Personal Free (10 users, 80 Linux cores, 100 GB cache) while they open a first invocation Timing tab, then pay Mac cores at $45 / core or a Team quote when cache transfer exceeds 100 GB. Pick Buildkite if cI teams who will stay on Free at $0 while they create a first pipeline, then buy Pro at $30 / active user / month when they need more than 10 self-hosted agents or
Best for
BuildBuddy Build logs and remote cache you start at $0
Buildkite YAML steps you start at $0 (self-hosted agents or hosted minutes)
Free plan
BuildBuddy No free plan
Buildkite $0 · solo / small teams. Up to 250 concurrent jobs and 50 active users on the compare we fetched
Lowest paid
BuildBuddy Mac remote execution $45
Buildkite Linux hosted agents $0.004
Next step up
BuildBuddy
Buildkite Mac hosted agents $0.02
Coding agent
BuildBuddy
Buildkite Self-hosted agents
Runs where
BuildBuddy Hosted
Buildkite Local or hosted
Watch out
BuildBuddy Personal Free is 10 users, 80 Linux cores, 100 GB cache
Buildkite Free $0 is not unlimited hosted minutes
Last checked
BuildBuddy 2026-10-23 · buildbuddy.io/pricing
Buildkite 2026-10-23 · buildkite.com/pricing
bazel teams who will stay on Personal Free (10 users, 80 Linux cores, 100 GB cache) while they open a first invocation Timing tab, then pay Mac cores at $45 / core or a Team quote when cache transfer exceeds 100 GB.
Read the BuildBuddy pagecI teams who will stay on Free at $0 while they create a first pipeline, then buy Pro at $30 / active user / month when they need more than 10 self-hosted agents or hosted minutes.
Read the Buildkite page
