Compare Buildkite and CircleCI 
Featured Products
At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (44.0% of reviews)
Small-Business (45.7% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Free
$0.00 Per Month
Buildkite
Star Rating
(25)4.8 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (44.0% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free
Browse all 4 pricing plansCircleCI
Star Rating
(508)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (45.7% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$0.00 Per Month
Browse all 4 pricing plansBuildkite vs CircleCI
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Buildkite easier to use and do business with overall. However, reviewers preferred the ease of set up with CircleCI, along with administration.
- Reviewers felt that Buildkite meets the needs of their business better than CircleCI.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Buildkite is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Buildkite over CircleCI.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Buildkite
Developer
Free
Set up powerful CI/CD pipelines for any software project for free.
- Unlimited concurrency
- Unlimited pipelines
- 5,000 job minutes/month
CircleCI
FREE
$0.00
Per Month
Do more with your minutes.
- Up to 6,000 build minutes per month
- Largest selection: Build for Docker, Windows, Linux, Arm, and macOS or on your own compute with self-hosted runners
- Build better: Choose the right resource class size (S–L) to go fast and maximize your build minutes
Free Trial
Buildkite
Free Trial is available
CircleCI
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.3
16
8.8
444
Ease of Use
9.4
16
8.5
446
Ease of Setup
8.0
9
8.4
169
Ease of Admin
9.2
8
8.3
163
Quality of Support
9.4
15
8.2
321
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.8
8
8.6
134
Product Direction (% positive)
9.1
13
7.9
441
Features by Category
Functionality
9.4
8
8.7
54
9.8
7
8.5
59
8.3
5
8.1
51
Management
9.0
7
8.5
60
6.9
7
7.7
47
8.8
7
8.7
59
Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
Not enough data
8.9
19
Not enough data
9.0
20
Not enough data
8.7
19
Functionality
Not enough data
9.0
23
Not enough data
9.0
23
Not enough data
8.8
20
Processes
Not enough data
8.8
23
Not enough data
8.9
22
Not enough data
9.1
22
Functionality
8.3
9
8.7
77
|
Verified
8.3
8
8.3
63
|
Verified
8.9
9
8.2
67
|
Verified
Management
9.0
8
8.8
72
|
Verified
9.0
8
8.6
77
|
Verified
7.0
9
7.8
61
|
Verified
Agentic AI - Continuous Integration
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Buildkite and CircleCI are categorized as Continuous Integration, Build Automation, and Continuous Delivery
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Buildkite
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
CircleCI
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software
48.0%
Information Technology and Services
16.0%
Financial Services
12.0%
Online Media
8.0%
Primary/Secondary Education
4.0%
Other
12.0%
Computer Software
26.5%
Information Technology and Services
17.6%
Internet
10.1%
Financial Services
4.4%
Marketing and Advertising
3.2%
Other
38.2%
Discussions
Is Buildkite open source?
1 Comment
SK
In some aspects it is open source - the agent and the plugins are open source.Read more
What is a Buildkite pipeline?
1 Comment
PB
A pipeline is a template of the steps you want to run. There are many types of steps, some run scripts, some define conditional logic, and others wait for...Read more
Buildkite has no more discussions with answers
How do I get started?
1 Comment
Official Response from CircleCI
Linux plans start with the ability to run one build simultaneously without parallelism at no charge. Open source projects get 3 additional free containers,...Read more
What is concurrency? What is parallelism?
1 Comment
Official Response from CircleCI
Concurrency refers to utilizing multiple containers to run multiple builds at the same time. Otherwise, if you don't have enough free containers available,...Read more
How do containers work?
1 Comment
Official Response from CircleCI
Every time you push to your VCS system, we checkout your code and run your build inside of a fresh, on-demand, and isolated Linux container pre-loaded with...Read more
Hunting for software insights?
With over 3 million reviews, we can provide the specific details that help you make an informed software buying decision for your business. Finding the right product is important, let us help.
