Buildkite vs Codemagic

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Buildkite is the stronger AI pick in CI/CD: it has a visibility score of 19.5 versus 0.9 for Codemagic, and ranks ahead in 0% of the answers that name both.

Choose Buildkite if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (19.5 vs 0.9)
You want a lower entry price ($30 vs $3,990)
AI answers describe it more positively (32% vs 0% positive)
You need SOC 2 Type II coverage

Choose Codemagic if…

You need SOC 2 Type 2 coverage
Usage-based pricing suits your budget better than per seat

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Buildkite	Codemagic
Visibility score	19.5%	0.9%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in CI/CD	#5	#28
Share of voice	6%	0.2%
Mentions this run	37	1
Positive in AI answers	32%	0%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Buildkite 0pp · Codemagic 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Buildkite leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

30.2%

AI Mode

8.7%

Perplexity

19.6%

2.6%

BuildkiteCodemagic

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

0Buildkite ranked higher

1Codemagic ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Buildkite	Codemagic
Which CI/CD tools offer annual discounts?	Perplexity	#8	#3

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Buildkite	Codemagic
Pricing model	Per seat	Usage-based
Entry price	Free; paid from $30 per seat / mo	Free; paid from $3,990 / mo
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Hybrid: the control plane is hosted in AWS, and agents run on customer infrastructure or on Buildkite hosted agents	Cloud-hosted and fully maintained; dedicated servers optional, hosted in your region
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II	SOC 2 Type 2
Support	Community support on the Free plan, Priority email support on the Pro plan, Enterprise support with SLA credits, priority response times and Slack Connect on the Enterprise plan	Community support, Technical support, Priority support (enterprise), Free onboarding assistance
Founded	2013	2012
Headquarters	Melbourne, Australia	London, United Kingdom
Employees	51–200	11–50
Funding	Convertible note	Seed
Best for	Engineering teams that want CI to run on their own infrastructure and need it to scale to large build volumes	Teams building Flutter, React Native, native Android and iOS apps who want hosted mobile CI/CD.