Buildkite vs Parabuild
Buildkite
buildkite.comParabuild
parabuildci.orgSide by side
| Figure | Buildkite | Parabuild |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $30/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 0 |
| Spec score · Continuous Integration Software | 8.6 (#9) | 7.6 (#35) |
| Company | Buildkite says it was founded in 2013 and operates as a fully remote team across more than 60 cities. | Viewtier Systems, Inc. developed, marketed, and supported Parabuild; a company announcement says it was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. |
| Compliance | Buildkite says it maintains an annually audited SOC 2 Type II report. | The feature overview lists build configuration auditing and change lists under compliance and IT governance. |
| Purpose | Buildkite Pipelines is a platform for building CI/CD workflows, with pipeline steps dispatched as jobs to agents. | Parabuild is an open source CI/CD platform for continuous integration and software release management. |
| Security | Buildkite states that data in transit is protected with TLS 1.2+ and data at rest is encrypted using AES-256. | The feature overview lists group-based security and LDAP authentication; an AccuRev integration page also says access can use an internal user database, LDAP, or Active Directory. |
| Support | The Free Plan includes community support, Pro includes priority email support, and Enterprise includes support with SLA credits and Slack Connect. | The maker offers online support forums and email support at [email protected]. |
Plans
In their own words
Buildkite
Buildkite Pipelines is a CI/CD platform that dispatches pipeline steps as jobs to agents. Agents can be hosted by Buildkite or run in a customer's own infrastructure, including on-premises and cloud environments. Dynamic pipelines can generate and upload steps during a build, allowing a workflow to respond to code changes, test results or runtime logic. Test Engine collects results across testing frameworks and provides tools to track, analyze and act on them. It can detect and quarantine flaky tests, split tests across parallel jobs, and monitor test performance, reliability and ownership. Documented integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, Amazon EventBridge, Artifactory, Docker Hub and Backstage. Buildkite lists TLS 1.2+ for data in transit and AES-256 encryption at rest, along with an annually audited SOC 2 Type II report. The Free Plan costs nothing and allows up to 5 users and 10 concurrent jobs. Pro costs $30 a month, billed per active user monthly, and includes up to 50 users and up to 250 concurrent agents, with 10 included.
Parabuild
Parabuild has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.