# Buildkite Reviews **Vendor:** Buildkite **Category:** [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-integration) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About Buildkite Move beyond CI/CD with Buildkite’s Scale-Out Delivery Platform. Loved by the world’s most demanding companies, including Uber, Shopify, Slack, Canva, and more. ## Buildkite Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **highly customizable** features of Buildkite, which effectively meet their CI needs and improve pipeline understanding. (1 reviews) - Users value the **visualization tools** in Buildkite, finding them essential for understanding pipelines and addressing issues. (1 reviews) - Users value the **customizable visualization tools** in Buildkite for enhancing CI pipeline understanding and issue management. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Buildkite, allowing customization to perfectly fit their CI workflows and visualization needs. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **helpful visualization tools** that enhance understanding of pipeline and issues in Buildkite. (1 reviews) - Tools (1 reviews) - User Interface (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **learning curve steep** due to Buildkite's extensive customization options, impacting initial usability. (1 reviews) - Users find a **limited customization** that leads to a somewhat steep learning curve in Buildkite's usage. (1 reviews) - Users find the **steep learning curve** challenging due to the extensive customization options available in Buildkite. (1 reviews) ## Buildkite Reviews ### 1. Great Visualization Tools and User-Friendly Interface **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Helpful visualization tools to understand pipeline and issues. Highly customizable to suit CI needs **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Somewhat steep learning curve given high level of customization **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI pipeline and deployments ### 2. Buildkite is the top CI/CD platform. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter B. | Hands-on Engineering Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Buildkite has a fantastic plugin architecture that lets me, my team, and even newbies-to-the-tool write their own plugins. Unlike Jenkins, these plugins don't break anything or interfere with the system in any way. Their support team is also amazing, super responsive and knowledgeable. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** This is a difficult question, because Buildkite is such a great product, it is hard to find anything to dislike. Their slack integration is a generation behind on the slack API, which makes it a bit tougher to admin at scale, but that is a very minor thing. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buildkite is solving CI/CD at-scale and is at the forefront of tech for automated build and deploy pipelines. We can run thousands of pipelines through Buildkite without blinking an eye, everything just works and it all scales elastically, allowing my support team to focus on other tasks. We're doing thousands of deploys a month, doing true continuous deployment (not just delivery), and Buildkite enables that for us with ease. ### 3. Reimagining our CI/CD workflow with Buildkite **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** The platform and API documentation are stellar; kudos to the GraphQL explorer as well! Utilizing clusters and having a webhook and notification service built into the platform has eased some previous pain we've experienced. The web UI and UX are very intuitive, and pairing them with the amazing docs makes for a pleasant product introduction. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Mostly a personal gripe; creating a YAML pipeline doesn't feel great when done through the API. More specifically, the configuration field in the payload is very clunky and difficult to interface with as a human. (I know the intention is for it to be done programmatically as an API, but it felt worth calling out) Another nit-picky thing I've noticed is that certain values that go into a build's meta_data are casted in the response/event notification payloads. (int -> string) **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being a vendored and managed service, Buildkite alleviates the pains of CI platform maintenance, helping us spend more time on things that matter more. ### 4. Buildkite is a joy for users and operators alike **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Buildkite is a pleasure for our developers to use compared to other solutions we've tried. It is pluggable and customizable for the organization's needs without being cumbersome to customize. I love that we can use Vault to intuitively and securely store secrets for individual pipelines or shared secrets. We can encapsulate shared pipeline logic by writing simple plugins. Operating the runners is a breeze. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Buildkite's documentation and tooling for plugins made it easy to fall into the trap of writing big plugins that are all bash code which is very difficult to test, so be mindful when writing plugins to only use bash as a minimal wrapper. Their pipeline search functionality is not the greatest. Onboarding pipelines is not the easiest, especially if you want the pipeline to be defined from code in the repo itself. But these are small prices to pay for how great Buildkite is. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buildkite solves the business problem of securely deploying code into our infrastructure without being a pain to operate. Its usability also improves developers' engagement with their CI/CD processes, allowing them to tweak the process for increased speed and reliability. Buildkite is also used to automate everyday tasks we want non-SREs to feel comfortable initiating. ### 5. Really great documentation, and easy to understand. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos V. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Very flexible, gives engineers flexibility and ease of use. We can integrate with our existing tools fairly easily due to this flexibility. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** It'd be great to see more APIs for streamlining certain things. Such as creating a suite entry through an API rather than having to do it manually. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's solving ease of use, accessibility, and keeping our team nimble and more focused on improving the CI Experience. We don't have to worry about maintenance as much. ### 6. An amazing CI experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geoff H. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** We've used several different CI systems in the past four years, and Buildkite has been the best. Their configuration is highly flexible and the "bring your own infrastructure" aspect allows us to prioritize performance where it matters for us. We've gotten what used to be 12-18 minute builds running in under five minutes with layer caching and parallelization available in Buildkite. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** The minorest of quibbles: I've found dynamic pipelines (where the steps in the pipeline are built at pipeline start) to be difficult to write. We sometimes see errors that appear to be Docker Hub not responding that don't seem easily fixable with retries (< 1% of builds). **Recommendations to others considering Buildkite:** Make sure you know Docker. While you can work with Buildkite without Docker, it's much easier to leverage their excellent Docker plugins and Docker-oriented workflow. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our builds are passing or failing based on the actual test steps and not ephemeral non-code issues! Our pipeline is fast, running in less than half the time we were able to build and test on other CI platforms. We almost never have a "CI crisis" where an engineer needs to stop project work to fix CI issues that block the rest of the team. ### 7. The perfect balance for managed CI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan H. | Heat of Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Over the years, I've used Travis, Circle-CI, Jenkins, and lots of in-house tools. For me, Buildkite manages the right parts - the controller and dashboard - while giving me the proper control over the runtime environment. Compared to other managed CIs, bringing our own agents lets us customize their resources, secure access, and much more -- and also results in a lower bill since they don't charge us a huge markup over raw cloud prices. Better control, more power, and a great price. Customer support and product improvement have also always been outstanding. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** There's not much to dislike. AWS itself is pretty complicated (we use the Elastic CI CloudFormation stack), but that is the cost of doing business. One reasonably big annoyance is gaining access to logs or artifacts hosted in private AWS buckets. Buildkite provides links that don't (can't?) work because they don't go through an AWS login path. That said, we have a script: folks can copy the URL into and then download files with their own CLI auth. **Recommendations to others considering Buildkite:** Do it. You won't regret it. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** * Pre-commit pipelines that only run tests for code that has changed * One-click releases, fully vetted by CI * Automatically triggering complicated integration tests * Managing multiple different build clusters with different resources, requirements, and permissions * Autoscaling up and down the build infrastructure according to demand Our dev infra time has gone way down, our bill is manageable, and our engineers are happy. ### 8. Buildkite is a pleasure to use and is incredibly powerful! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shray K. | Staff Software Engineer on Infrastructure, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Buildkite is an extremely modern CI framework that allows for a modular ci pipeline, provides the ability to create your own abstractions and supports monorepos and micro services. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Nothing really - it's very reliable, easy to run and affordable! **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to ship code faster and iterate faster so our clients can receive new feature at a reliable clip. ### 9. Buildkite the tool and company helped us achieve our CI consolidation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laurence T. | Senior Platform Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** We achieved most of our goals in consolidating to a central, zero-trust, code-driven CICD platform using Buildkite. The tools and APIs are simple, well-considered components that we can compose into a wide variety of pipelines to suit our business. The company was responsive to all our initial questions, integration work and continues to support our users and our automated build and deploy requirements. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** A minor inconvenience is the granularity of permissions and interface, which stops us from achieving self-administration for our dev teams. We still require full-org administrators for some tasks - notably, Notifications. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We required a central, third-party orchestrator for our CICD processes that helps us deploy our own build infrastructure (agents), has little or no access to our credentials and secrets, can be code-driven, provides appropriate user-directory integration, and so-on. We were able to achieve this with Buildkite. ### 10. Best in class CICD delivering the security of self-hosting with the efficiency of a SAAS solution. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joel C. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** The ability to ensure code stays within a controlled environment, even while using a SAAS platform. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Nothing to date. We've been able to deliver on all requirements. **Recommendations to others considering Buildkite:** Seriously consider adopting Buildkite to deliver on your CI/CD requirements. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** CICD for applications and infrastructure deployment. ### 11. I use Buildkite everyday **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Very easy to use, friendly UI and best CI tool I've used this far! Easy to see all your build steps, your builds all in one, and everything you'd need. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Not much I can think of... It seems to have all the features I need. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it as a developer, to make sure all the CI steps pass in my branch. ### 12. Buildkite is CI tooling that's powerful enough to get the the job done without getting in the way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher F. | DevOps Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Buildkite's biggest advantage is it's flexibility and extensibility of the platform without needing to reinvent the wheel for every little thing. The plugin system allows easy use of third party extensions, while also allowing teams to fork those extensions and customise as needed quickly. The simplicity and flexibility of the agent will enable teams to customise their own worker pools to meet specific needs. The community is also very welcoming and knowledgable; usually willing to share thier experiences and examples of how to solve problems. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** The main weakness of Buildkite is the lack of reporting and dashboarding within the tooling. It would be helpful if there was a simple build status radiator page to use as a dashboard of failed builds. More reporting of build timings to help focus on areas of improvement would be great as well. Some kind of release management dashboarding would be great as well, providing a simple overview of the last build deployed per environment. This would make it a much more powerful CD platform also. **Recommendations to others considering Buildkite:** Make sure that you leverage the elastic stack if you're on AWS. Make sure that you looking to the plugin system, and particularly how the library-example-buildkite-plugin for how you can easily share common code among different pipelines. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Buildkite to manage all our CI across both monolithic and microservice applications, as well as serverless and infrastructure code. We also use it as a flexible job scheduler for adhoc scripts and processes. We've benefited by being able to keep complicated and specific pipelines with the code they're building, as well as leveraging plugins for more common patterns, reducing rework. ### 13. The greatest CI that has supported my career for years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom M. | Engineering Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Simplicity and extensibility of setup. Every company I've joined, we've switched to using Buildkite in short order. I'll be able to spin up a working setup within a day and prove why it is superior to any alternative. It has also been incredible in cutting edge technologies, to be able to move ahead without waiting for an 'all in' system to catch up, things like iOS and android direct testing. The UI is informative and intuitive with a direct tie-in to the simple yaml construction. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** I have very few things I dislike, I miss the runnning build count being visible on all pages, I would also like 2FA SSO enforcement, search for log output across steps would also save some time. All minor product feature requests, nothing mission critical, and usually our wants suddenly appear in the app in due-cource. **Recommendations to others considering Buildkite:** Try out a variety of CI providers, if you have an even moderate set of needs to be customized over time, Buildkite is quite simply the only choice. Nothing else on the market allows us to operate a very custom setup so easily, with expandability. It has been perfect with web, android, ios and a variety of languages and platforms that change annually. Without a doubt, it has personally improved both my development life, and my career, and continues to do so. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Every day in my career using buildkite has made the products I've built easier, faster, more stable, and confident in our releases. ### 14. A powerful Swiss Army knife for CI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob G. | Staff Platform Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Buildkite balances the right abstraction level for CI in a way that allows for simple pipelines all the way up to quite complex workflows to be constructed simply. Unlike other CI services, Buildkite's YAML-based pipeline config is comprised of only 5 different step types (run command, wait for commands, block for approval, ask for user input, and trigger another pipeline) that are composable. This makes it simple for teammates to understand and configure pipelines without having to learn very complex syntaxes. Buildkite's runner agent is self-hosted, which allows us to run builds within our infrastructure, including custom IAM role access to our environments, in a way that's more secure than giving the CI service a static access key and secret. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Since Buildkite's agent that runs builds is self-hosted, there is some initial work required to set up an agent cluster. Buildkite provides an AWS-based preset, as well as a Kubernetes Helm chart, so this isn't too much of a hassle, but it requires more setup than fully-hosted CI services. This is both a plus and a minus though (see above), as we are in full control of the environment the agent runs in. **Recommendations to others considering Buildkite:** Buildkite is awesome if you either need to self-host your CI job runners, or you are willing to set up a self-hosted job runner. It provides a lot of power using simple building blocks behind a slick UI, so once the agents are running, it's often easier to work with than other CI services. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Buildkite to construct customized CI pipelines that run inside our infrastructure clusters - where other services like Circle CI or GitHub Actions primarily run inside the vendor's hosting environment, fully managed, with Buildkite we can run deploys inside AWS or inside Kubernetes. This allows us to control the access a build has to that infrastructure via IAM roles or Kubernetes service accounts in a very secure way. We also use Buildkite to construct a CI/CD system for Terraform. Buildkite has certain building blocks (control over global concurrency for a job type, the ability to block for user approval) that make it possible to create a safe pipeline for applying Terraform changes, with coordinated planned changes, approval requests, and a serial deploy queue. ### 15. Very flexible and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel W. | Principal, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Setting up agents and configuring the jobs are very easy. The ability to dynamically generate and upload your pipeline is also super powerful. The user interface is very clean and easy to understand. I also really love how we can just set up agents anywhere we like; this helped some of our more security and privacy conscious clients. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** They have so many awesome secret features that aren't documented, it's always a joy to find out that something I need is already built, but frustrating that I had to reach out to support to find out. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of our product builds and delivery. The main benefits have been the simplicity of setting up an agent anywhere you want and configuring it to do what you want it to do. ### 16. Best of both worlds of self-managed & SAAS CI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael P. | Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Buildkite has always had excellent UI & overall UX for developers. Their model of allowing you to run builds on your own infrastructure (either in cloud or self-managed) allows for the best of both worlds: a user-friendly interface that you don't need to manage yourself along with full control over how your builds are run and on what type of infrastructure they're run on. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** The buildkite.yml pipeline format can be sometimes confusing for new users - and YAML means that it's prone to accidental indent errors. I'd love it the service had native support for deployments & versioning, although this can be emulated with certain pipeline designs. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buildkite orchestrates all CI (continuous integration) and some CD (continuous deployment) tasks at my workplace. ### 17. Easy to deploy our webapp with BuildKite! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shaun Y. | Head of Web Marketing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Works great once everything was hooked up - as a web developer I never really had to worry much about the server or infrastructure deployment commands, even when BuildKite was firing off a chain of multiple tools that included our build, containerization and putting it into Kubernetes. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** It took a while for me to grok, mostly because our internal setup was quite complex, so there were quite a few steps required. I eventually overcame and was able to keep our web app updated on my own mostly. **Recommendations to others considering Buildkite:** It seems to make it easy on the actual people running the operational side of things. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a repeatable way to deploy my webapp without needing ops support. In the event of a problem, I could debug my side of the code, while ops had context from other app environments to help with fixes. That facilitated easy communication and separation of concerns between the teams. ### 18. This is the best CI/CD tool that can be customized to any company needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** The best part about Buildkite is that it fits any project complexity. It allows you to build a pipeline that matches your delivery process, and it works well with complex projects that contain multiple pipelines and approval steps. It is easy to extend buildkite using existing plugins and it is super easy to create your own plugins if needed. Our whole team liked the simplistic (yet powerful) UI that is super-fast and responsive. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** It is a bit uncomfortable to have an initial "pipeline upload" step defined in Buildkite UI (not as a code). However with a new buildkite terraform provider it is possible to have the initial pipeline configuration stored in the codebase. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Managed CI/CD service, so we don't need to maintain a service internally. - Buildkite agents are running in our infrastructure, so we can do CI and CD using the same tool without compromising the security. ### 19. The pipeline tool I wish I had written years ago **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pete J. | Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** It's hard to choose just one killer feature. Our code and secrets not having to leave our infrastructure is a big thing. I also love that the pipeline lives in code alongside the rest of our applications. Having direct access to Buildkite support via Slack is wonderful. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Not a dislike but I'd love to see more community plugins. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a production issue where a broken JSON file wouldn't load; now we have a step to run jsonlint on all of our builds. Then we got bitten by a TODO in production; now we have Glyptodont in our builds. Parallel processing FTW. ### 20. Fast, Secure, Scalable and Reliable Builds **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James H. | Head Of Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** A simple standardised build pipelines across all our codebases, one that everyone on the team understands. Reducing build pipeline complexity has been such a win from a productivity perspective, can't overstate this enough! Not having our code stored on yet another platform! Overall it's brought speed, consistency and reliability to our deploys, and a very very happy team. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Would love to see even more stats on my builds... at the moment i'm building stats via their API so, not so bad. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orchestrates builds and releases for all our key applications. ### 21. Must-have tool for software development teams **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John S. | Co-founder/CTO/Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** * We've got our builds running on a bunch of build agents with a minimum fuss * Very, very configurable * Cheap as * Super swish UI/UX **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** * Their updates make me feel like our codebase moves like mola **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to run pre-check-in builds locally all the time. Now it's run on the BuildKite agents and reported back to Github. Saves me maybe an hour a day from waiting/disruption! ### 22. Scalable CI that you control, with amazing support and documentation! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin Y. | Founding Engineer / Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Great support and documentation!!! Fast. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** ........................................ **Recommendations to others considering Buildkite:** If you want to get CI up and running quickly, this is a great tool to try. The ability to control, scale and parallelize your builds with minimal effort is refreshing! **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost competitive CI, that I can control on my machines but without having to worry about maintaining the CI software stack itself. ### 23. Buildkite scales with my team 📈 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt A. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Gives me the flexibility to deploy at scale, in a secure way **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** Not much at all, buy you have to like YAML **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having my CI/CD scale with my team and not slow us down. The ability to autoscale our CI infra means my devs are not waiting for feedback. ### 24. Used in conjunction with GitHub **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam N. | Chief Operations Officer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** Better integration with Github, Can configure multiple versions and users easily for greater productivity. This solution is very cost-effective compared to other expensive GitHub integration software, and was moreover very well received by the user community as a productivity tool. Our firm is please to recommend this product. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** It sometimes is unresponsive, and the software just hangs, as though needing memory. Customer service is spotty at best, however we were able to use work-arounds to ease support requirements. **Recommendations to others considering Buildkite:** Please evaluate your requirements before installing/using **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** API building for the STreetOne LLC platform ### 25. Easy to use! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelsey L. | Member of the Technical Staff, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Buildkite?** I like how the UI is easy to reason about. **What do you dislike about Buildkite?** It can be troublesome when buildkite has outages. **What problems is Buildkite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can easily separate out our build pipelines. ## Buildkite Discussions - [What is a Buildkite pipeline?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-a-buildkite-pipeline) - 1 comment - [Is Buildkite open source?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-buildkite-open-source) - 1 comment - [View Buildkite pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/buildkite/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+08%3A20%3A43+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=80644fb4-e0d6-4f39-aaea-8e921c418ca0&secure%5Btoken%5D=269b9de6d03eed9be7d174fe6b6abc9847afceecb10b3f49b6a98e83c2a47abe&format=llm_user) ## Buildkite Features **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Buildkite Alternatives - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,276 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (547 reviews) - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (873 reviews)