Buildkite vs Tekton
No clear leader: Buildkite (65.3) and Tekton (61.9) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for ci/cd tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Buildkite
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.
Tekton
An open-source tool for building and running automated testing and deployment workflows. Leverages Kubernetes as the foundation and supports deployment across cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Buildkite
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).
- FreeFree
- Up to 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes/month
- Up to 250k test executions/month
- Dynamic pipelines
- Community support
- 1 workflow
- ProPer active user/month (amount not specified in source)
- 4,000 Linux vCPU minutes/month included
- 1M test executions/month
- macOS agents access
- Priority email support
- 250k/month test history
- +1 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Full Buildkite platform access
- 99.95% platform uptime SLA
- Buildkite-hosted agents with remote Docker builders
- Private container registry
- Custom storage and retention policies
- +8 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- GitHub
- Jenkins
Buildkite
- GitHub Enterprise
- Bitbucket Server
- AWS ECR
- AWS S3
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS IAM
- AWS CloudWatch
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CircleCI
- NPM
- PyPI
- RubyGems
- Maven
- Apt
- RPM
- Helm
- Alpine
- Jest
- Mocha
- Cypress
- Playwright
- Jasmine
- Rspec
- +22 more
Tekton
- Jenkins X
- Skaffold
- Knative
Buildkite or Tekton: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.