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BuildBuddy vs Infracost

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 Infracost if platform teams who will stay on CI/CD Free (1,000 runs / month) while they open a first Dashboard, then buy Starter at $250 / month when they need 10,000 runs — or

BuildBuddy

BuildBuddy

hosted Bazel-results desk

Infracost

Infracost

hosted FinOps-in-PR desk

Best for

BuildBuddy Build logs and remote cache you start at $0

Infracost IaC cost and governance you start at $0

Free plan

BuildBuddy No free plan

Infracost No free plan

Lowest paid

BuildBuddy Mac remote execution $45

Infracost Starter $250

Runs where

BuildBuddy Hosted

Infracost Hosted

Watch out

BuildBuddy Personal Free is 10 users, 80 Linux cores, 100 GB cache

Infracost Free is 1,000 runs / month

Last checked

BuildBuddy 2026-10-23 · buildbuddy.io/pricing

Infracost 2026-10-23 · infracost.io/pricing

Which one, then?

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.

Read the BuildBuddy page

Pick Infracost if

platform teams who will stay on CI/CD Free (1,000 runs / month) while they open a first Dashboard, then buy Starter at $250 / month when they need 10,000 runs — or Cloud at $1,000 / month when FinOps policies and Issue Explorer matter.

Read the Infracost page

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