Buildkite has removed their $9 "Team" plan

One thing to note with Buildkite is that they are a "bring your own infrastructure" company. All of your builds and CI tasks happen on your own machines, with their SaaS as an orchestrater. This means that their infrastructure costs shouldn't be as high as other CI/CD platforms.

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.

Hi I’m Keith, Buildkite CEO.

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!

I'm on a $15 per month legacy plan, this means I have unlimited build minutes (I think?), but for what it is worth, I can still switch to the $9 "Team" plan in their interface.

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! :)

How would they do this loudly?

So? Businesses change their pricing all the time. This isnt some sort of conspiracy