Head to head
TeamCity vs Buildkite
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
25/100 | 49/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #6 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | — | 73 |
| AI Authority | 10 | 33 |
| Web Authority | 11 | 21 |
| Expert Assessment | 67 | 69 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published (vendor Buy page is JavaScript-rendered and served no figures to retrieval) · free tier: Professional: free, no licence key required, 3 build agents, capped at 100 build configurations (archived ones counted) and 10 pipelines; excludes paid-integration Enterprise features such as AI Assistant; community forum support only | USD $30 per active user/month (Pro) · free tier: Free plan $0: up to 5 users, 10 concurrent jobs, 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes/month, 250k test executions/month, dynamic pipelines, community support, 30-day build/artifact retention; plus a 30-day all-access trial of Free or Pro with no credit card and a dedicated Developer Success Engineer |
| Pricing model | Licence-based: perpetual for covered versions with ~1-year maintenance period; agent-slot concurrency licensing (Cloud subscription model not verified) | Subscription with usage-based overages |
| Best for | Engineering organisations that need self-hosted or air-gapped CI/CD with steady, high build volume, where agent-based concurrency licensing caps a bill that per-minute SaaS metering would inflate — and teams already invested in JetBrains tooling. | Engineering organisations of roughly 50+ engineers with a platform or SRE team, running monorepos, Bazel, large test suites or macOS/mobile builds, who need build execution inside their own security boundary — including teams migrating off self-managed Jenkins. |
| Avoid if | You want zero build infrastructure to operate, transparent self-serve pricing before speaking to sales, CI fused natively into your code host (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI), or you cannot guarantee uninterrupted maintenance renewal given the downgrade-and-pause behaviour. | You have fewer than ~10 engineers or no infrastructure owner, want a zero-ops fully hosted runner, need audit logs/SCIM/private log storage on a Pro budget, need ephemeral preview or staging environments, or require a published enterprise price before engaging sales. |
| Markets | SMB, Enterprise, Open Source projects | Mid-market, Enterprise, Platform/DevOps teams |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.