That said, they are absolutely the best CI platform if you're doing anything that requires special hardware. They're absolutely fantastic for GPU testing. They even provide a cloudformation stack with autoscaling, so if you're using AWS and aren't running builds the infra costs drop down to almost nothing. For the companies I've worked at that have used Buildkite it's definitely been worth the money.
You caught us! Well spotted.
We had such little success with the $9 plan. When people upgraded, they generally chose the more expensive option. Knowing this, we removed it to see what happens to upgrade rates. We might even increase the free offering to balance it out, not sure yet.
Pricing is dark art of science, economics, research and “making shit up”. I dunno if this iteration is any better, but we’ll see!
The interface tells me that a Team plan has:
> 20,000 Job minutes included per month
> + 5,000 Job minutes per user
> 250,000 Test executions included per month
> + 50,000 Test executions per user
Compared to a "Business plan" which has:
> 40,000 Job minutes included per month
> + 12,500 Job minutes per user
> 500,000 Test executions included per month
> + 50,000 Test executions per user
I love Buildkite! :)
