# Buildkite vs Nx

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Buildkite

| Attribute | Buildkite | Nx |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 65.3 (72% (medium)) | 59 (30% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Buildkite is a CI/CD platform for automating testing, building, and deployment workflows with unrestricted parallelism. It supports both cloud-hosted and self-hosted runners, container-native builds, and advanced test intelligence features like flaky test isolation and performance profiling. It is indexed under CI/CD Tools.","source":"https://buildkite.com/pricing/","question":"What is Buildkite?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Buildkite offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Free, Pro and Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://buildkite.com/pricing/","question":"Is Buildkite free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Buildkite supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://buildkite.com/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Buildkite support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Buildkite can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://buildkite.com/pricing/","question":"Can Buildkite be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 40 integrations for Buildkite, including GitHub, Bitbucket Server, AWS ECR, AWS S3, AWS CloudFormation, AWS IAM, AWS CloudWatch and Docker, plus 32 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://buildkite.com/pricing/","question":"What does Buildkite integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Buildkite. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Buildkite not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://buildkite.com/platform/pipelines/templates/security/","question":"What security certifications does Buildkite have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Buildkite is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Australia.","source":"https://buildkite.com/pricing/","question":"Where is Buildkite available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source monorepo platform that optimizes build performance through intelligent caching and distributed task execution across machines. Includes AI-powered CI capabilities to detect and fix pipeline failures automatically. It is indexed under CI/CD Tools.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"What is Nx?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nx offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $29 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"Is Nx free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nx supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"What platforms does Nx support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Nx can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"Can Nx be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 14 integrations for Nx, including Cursor, GitHub Copilot, JetBrains, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket and VS Code, plus 6 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"What does Nx integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nx is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"Where is Nx available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A continuous integration and deployment platform that automates software workflows with support for both cloud-hosted and self-managed build agents, test execution, and artifact management. | Nx is a build system and CI platform optimized for monorepos and polyglot codebases. It accelerates builds through intelligent caching and task deduplication, distributes work across machines, and provides integrated CI with security features. |
| features.capabilities | `{"caching":true,"hosting":"both","marketplace":true,"matrix_builds":true,"yaml_pipelines":true,"container_native":true,"secrets_management":true,"deploy_environments":true,"self_hosted_runners":true}` | `{"caching":true,"hosting":"both","marketplace":true,"open_source":true,"matrix_builds":true,"remote_caching":true,"yaml_pipelines":true,"code_generators":true,"monorepo_native":true,"container_native":true,"polyglot_support":true,"remote_execution":true,"affected_detection":true,"incremental_builds":true,"secrets_management":true,"deploy_environments":true,"self_hosted_runners":true,"task_dag_orchestration":true,"distributed_remote_execution":true,"dependency_graph_visualization":true}` |
| integrations.count | 25 | 18 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Enterprise"},{"name":"Bitbucket Server"},{"name":"AWS ECR"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"AWS CloudFormation"},{"name":"AWS IAM"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"CircleCI"},{"name":"NPM"},{"name":"PyPI"},{"name":"RubyGems"},{"name":"Maven"},{"name":"Apt"},{"name":"RPM"},{"name":"Helm"},{"name":"Alpine"},{"name":"Jest"},{"name":"Mocha"},{"name":"Cypress"},{"name":"Playwright"},{"name":"Jasmine"},{"name":"Rspec"},{"name":"minitest"},{"name":"pytest"},{"name":"JUnit"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Rust"},{"name":".NET"},{"name":"Elixir"},{"name":"Swift"},{"name":"Android"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Slack Connect","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitHub Actions","native":false,"category":"ci_cd","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS EventBridge","native":true,"category":"events","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"CloudWatch","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Snyk","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Wiz","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Lacework","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"SIEM","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Amazon S3","native":true,"category":"storage","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot"},{"name":"JetBrains"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"scm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitLab","native":true,"category":"scm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure DevOps","native":true,"category":"ci","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bitbucket","native":true,"category":"scm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"VS Code","native":true,"category":"editor","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"JetBrains IntelliJ","native":true,"category":"editor","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":false,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vite","native":true,"category":"build","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Webpack","native":true,"category":"build","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Jest","native":true,"category":"testing","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"ESLint","native":true,"category":"linting","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Gradle","native":true,"category":"build","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Vitest","native":true},{"name":"Maven","native":true},{"name":".NET","native":true},{"name":"Go","native":true},{"name":"Angular","native":true},{"name":"React","native":true},{"name":"Python","native":false},{"name":"Rust","native":false},{"name":"PHP","native":false}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"$0/month","features":["Up to 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes/month","Up to 250k test executions/month","Dynamic pipelines","Community support","1 workflow"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"30-day all-access trial to all platform features, then ongoing free tier with limited resources","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"test_executions":"250k/mo","linux_vcpu_minutes":"2,000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"Per active user/month (amount not specified in source)","features":["4,000 Linux vCPU minutes/month included","1M test executions/month","macOS agents access","Priority email support","250k/month test history","1 workflow"],"commitment":"monthly","description":"Per-seat pricing with increased build capacity, macOS support, and priority support","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"test_executions":"1M/mo","linux_vcpu_minutes":"4,000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Full Buildkite platform access","99.95% platform uptime SLA","Buildkite-hosted agents with remote Docker builders","Private container registry","Custom storage and retention policies","SCIM, custom SAML & ADFS","Audit log exports","EventBridge and SIEM integrations","Enterprise support with SLA credits","Slack Connect","2.5TB/month build storage","Largest machine sizes","Linux ARM64 support"],"description":"Custom deployment with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and unlimited scale","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Linux Hosted Agent vCPU Minutes","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"vCPU-minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.004,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Mac Hosted Agent vCPU Minutes","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"vCPU-minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.02,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"vCPU-minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.12,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"vCPU-minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.24,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Self-hosted Agents","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"agent","amount":3.5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier with 30-day all-access trial. Pro plan per active user/month. Enterprise with custom pricing. Metered usage for hosted agents ($0.004/Linux vCPU-min, $0.02-$0.24/Mac vCPU-min).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://buildkite.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-04T11:11:46.454Z","freeTrialDays":30,"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Hobby","summary":"Free forever","features":["50,000 monthly credits","5 complimentary contributors","10 concurrent CI connections","All Nx Agents resource types","Basic analytics","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Free plan for individual developers and small teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"contributors":"5","monthly_credits":"50000","concurrent_ci_connections":"10"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$29/month","features":["All Hobby features","$29 monthly usage credit included","Email support","Additional credits at $5.50 per 10,000","Additional contributors at $19 each","Additional concurrent connections at $2.25 each"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams needing consistent performance without usage caps","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monthly_credit_allocation":"29"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["All Team features","Conformance rules and circular dependency detection","Cross-repository visibility","CI observability and premium analytics","Dedicated support with SLAs","Isolated and self-hosted deployment options","Volume credit discounts","SSO / SAML authentication"],"description":"Custom enterprise pricing with advanced features and dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Extra credits","components":[{"per":{"qty":10000,"unit":"credits"},"kind":"metered","amount":5.5,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Additional contributor","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"contributor","amount":19,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Additional concurrent CI connection","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"connection","amount":2.25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Dedicated Compute Cluster with Sandboxing and Docker support","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid plans from $29/month with usage-based add-ons.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nx.dev/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-18T12:38:08.987Z","startingPrice":{"amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":29,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type I","level":"Type I","status":"active"},{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active","evidenceUrl":"https://buildkite.com/resources/blog/buildkite-maintains-soc-2-type-2-compliance/"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://buildkite.com/resources/blog/buildkite-maintains-soc-2-type-2-compliance/ | https://nx.dev/enterprise/security |

## Capabilities (CI/CD Tools)

| Capability | Buildkite | Nx |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| Self-hosted runners | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Config-as-code pipelines | ✓ | ✓ |
| Matrix / parallel builds | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Build** |  |  |
| Container-native builds | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Performance** |  |  |
| Build caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Security** |  |  |
| Secrets management | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Delivery** |  |  |
| Deployment environments & approvals | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ecosystem** |  |  |
| Reusable actions / marketplace | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:59:24.355Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*