Bitbucket is keeping a free tier for self-hosted CI runners

atlassian.com

3 pointsmoebrowne3 comments

They will have to explain how "We’ll continue to offer a free tier that is perfect for small to medium teams, up to 100 basic runners per workspace." aligns with their other statement https://www.atlassian.com/blog/bitbucket/announcing-v5-self-... "$15/month per concurrent build slot: Pricing per build slot provides significant value when compared to alternative commercial self-hosted CI tools. For most customers migrating from Bamboo, the costs of running a fleet of self-hosted runners will be significantly lower when ran on Pipelines. Plan inclusions: Standard tier workspaces include one free self-hosted runner slot, and Premium tier workspaces include two free slots."

this means that you get 1 or 2 concurrent builds for free, rest you pay for. No matter how many "free" runners they let you configure.

There were talks of not keeping it?

By GitHub, this is marketing that they won't like their #1 competitor?

edit: apparently they have as well

> In December 2025, we announced our intention to introduce pricing for self-hosted runners so we could provide stronger support and keep investing in new features and ongoing improvements.

I assume this is their pipelines thing. We only use the webhooks to trigger self-hosted CI.

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