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 hosted minutes.
Read the Buildkite pageBuildkite vs Infracost
Our take
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 hosted minutes. 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
Best for
Buildkite YAML steps you start at $0 (self-hosted agents or hosted minutes)
Infracost IaC cost and governance you start at $0
Free plan
Buildkite $0 · solo / small teams. Up to 250 concurrent jobs and 50 active users on the compare we fetched
Infracost No free plan
Lowest paid
Buildkite Linux hosted agents $0.004
Infracost Starter $250
Next step up
Buildkite Mac hosted agents $0.02
Infracost
Coding agent
Buildkite Self-hosted agents
Infracost
Runs where
Buildkite Local or hosted
Infracost Hosted
Watch out
Buildkite Free $0 is not unlimited hosted minutes
Infracost Free is 1,000 runs / month
Last checked
Buildkite 2026-10-23 · buildkite.com/pricing
Infracost 2026-10-23 · infracost.io/pricing
Which one, then?
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