Buddy 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Buddy

4.8

(176)

Pricing

Starting at $29.00 per month

About Buddy

Buddy is designed specifically for web developers to aid with CI/CD and application development. It allows users to build, test, and deploy applications using more than 100 pre-built actions to help automate deployment pipelines. It supports a range of development languages including Ruby, Elixir, Angular, Phython, and more, and allows users to deploy finished apps on IaaS or PaaS systems including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, Heroku, Azure App Service, Shopify, UpCloud, Vultr,and Netlify.

DevOps teams can use the Buddy platform to build custom applications using features such as Docker layer caching, concurrent pipelines, reusable environments, repository caching, changeset-based deployments, and more. Designed to make it easy for developers, designers, and QA teams to carry out DevOps, Buddy automates processes including webhooks, push commands, caching, progress monitoring, deployments, and more. Buddy integrates with Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, Slack, Azure, UpCloud, Datadog, and many more third party applications.

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Buddy Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $29.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Free

$0.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

1 seat
1 runner
300 pipeline GB-minutes
1 GB of pipeline cache
1 GB of sandbox storage

Pro

$29.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

2 seats (extra: $9 / mo. per seat)
1 runner (extra: $50 / mo. per runner)
3000 pipeline GB-minutes (extra: from $0.0015 per minute)
10 GB of pipeline cache (extra: $1 / mo. per GB)
10 GB of sandbox storage (extra: $0.25 / mo. per GB)

Hyper

$99.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

5 seats (extra: $29 / mo. per seat)
2 runners (extra: $50 / mo. per runner)
6000 pipeline GB-minutes (extra: from $0.0015 per minute)
20 GB of pipeline cache (extra: $1 / mo. per GB)
20 GB of sandbox storage (extra: $0.25 / mo. per GB)
IP access restrictions
Day & hour run scheduling
Advanced permissions: pipelines, users & groups
Pipelines: trigger conditions, prioritization, custom services for actions & remote YAML configuration
Sandboxes: password-protected public URLs & custom domains

Pro (on-premises)

$35.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

2 seats (extra: $9 / mo. per seat)
2 runners (equals no. of seats – add more seats to increase)

Hyper (on-premises)

$99.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

5 seats (extra: $29 / mo. per seat)
5 runners (equals no. of seats – add more seats to increase)
IP access restrictions
Day & hour run scheduling
Advanced permissions: pipelines, users & groups
Pipelines: trigger conditions, prioritization, custom services for actions & remote YAML configuration
Single Sign-On: SAML & OIDC
Custom SLA & on-demand feature development (contact sales)

Buddy Features

Popular features found in Continuous Integration
Automated Testing
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment
Debugging
More features of Buddy
Access Controls/Permissions
Alerts/Notifications
API
Application Management
Build Log
Change Management
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Configuration Management
Continuous Integration
Custom Development
Customizable Templates
Deployment Management
For Developers
Forms Creation & Design
Graphical User Interface
Integrated Development Environment
Iteration Management
Mobile Development
Monitoring
No-Code
Pipeline Management
Quality Assurance
Role-Based Permissions
Software Development
Source Control
Third-Party Integrations
Version Control
Visual Modeling
Web App Development
Web/Mobile App Development
Workflow Management

Buddy Integrations

GitHub

Integration rated 4.6 from 15 reviews

Loggly

GitLab

Microsoft Azure

WordPress

Sentry

See all 17 integrations

Buddy User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

84%

14%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.8

Naing Aung L.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Buddy Works as a Continuous Integration tool

Buddy has been a huge help in our organization's engineering team by fail-safe builds.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Buddy has the most convenient CI/CD and deployment functionalities. It's web-UI based work flow builder really stands out and helps beginner mobile devs to easily use continuous integration.

Cons:

Buddy's Pro plan doesn't really suffice for memory-hungry builds. Especially in android builds, I felt it's 3GB Ram for Pro plan isn't really close to what we need. Builds would usually fail due to memory issues, no matter how optimized the pipeline is

Reasons for switching to Buddy

Pricing in Buddy was more negotiable

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

One of the easiest ways to build and learn CI/CD

I have realized the easy to use CI pipeline I've created to save a lot of time deploying my app to a production environment. I was first exposed to CI/CD in general through my role as a Web Developer and used Buddy as my first pipeline builder. The experience was so enlightening that I'm now using it in my personal project to deliver updates to my application in a sophisticated manner. This allows me to spend more time code and strategizing versus the rudimentary manual process I'm used to.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like Buddy for the ease of use when you are a budding developer looking to learn CI/CD practices.

Cons:

If you're an entry to mid level developer, I feel there is an initial learning curve to learning CI/CD in general. The documentation is satisfactory but it would be improved if each section or sub-section had a "You should know this before reading" bit in the first part of the article. That way a self-taught learner can establish the connection between Buddy and the rest of their stack by understanding key elements that necessitate the use of Buddy or how they are best augmented by what Buddy can do.

Reasons for choosing Buddy

I've used Buddy before but wanted to do light research into alternatives to see what else was out there. I fell back to Buddy because it felt easier to take up. Excluding the prior exposure to this platform, the usability and user experience is well enough that I don't feel like trying another system until my application grows larger.

Sumith T.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Best CI on Cloud platform.

Overall its a great tool to integrate CI and since everything is connected very well, it can do magic during the complex deployment process.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its very easy to set it up and get it going. My favourite is the UI.

Cons:

There is no proper documentation or training videos on this tool. Though its easy to setup some part of it, sometimes its really hard to find the help and configure something custom.

Reasons for choosing Buddy

Since its cloud based and very well presented UI. Easy to setup.

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

CI/CD made easy

People usually complain about paying for something they can make themselves. Buddy has freed up a lot of time for everyone in the organization by removing the technical skill and knowledge of Buddy configuration. The time saved is WORTH every penny!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The UX is so simple yet so powerful that anyone can create pipelines. Even our non-technical users understands the software and create pipelines to automate their needs from the code.

Cons:

The cap of concurrent runs is set to 4 on self-hosted. Even though the wait time is pretty low, it's still annoying when we deploy large amount of microservices.

Reasons for choosing Buddy

If Gitlab or Jenkins had such a nice UI/UX and customer service, I'd re-evaluate. As of now, Buddy is hands down one of the best service I've used money on.

Reasons for switching to Buddy

I got tired of listening to people whine about their pipelines doesn't work like they wanted. To add new services I had to figure out what to do. Wasted a lot of time...

SriKrishna Prakash S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

Buddy is DevOps Buddy

This is a good tool for devops but requires few flexibility of using multiple code repo urls in a project, able to create pipeline automatedly selected branches. Plugins for Liquibase, soanrqube servers etc

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The feature of defining actions and customize the actions based on the requirement. Switching on and off of the actions of a pipeline. When error occurred, correcting the issues and continue to run the pipeline.Parameter action and custom actions help to achieve what we want. Integration with third party tools like ACR, Synk- etc

Cons:

Selecting only one code repo for a project.

Reasons for switching to Buddy

Ease of use and creating pipeline and configurable customized actions for pipeline

Doug N.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed May 2019

A must-have automation tool for the non-IT professional

Overall my experience has been absolutely amazing. I have been able to deploy multiple technology stacks to multiple different environments, integrate PHP unit testing, check my applications' up-time, all while viewing everything in a single interface. Buddy has numerous 1st-party integrations to various platforms and tools to get you started very quickly. But what I have found invaluable is the tools that are made available for developers to create/customize their own integrations via cURL or SSH.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Buddy makes automation easy for developers who are not IT administrators. Unlike that of some of the other automation platforms, the available presets and hints that each pipeline comes with allows you to develop and customize your deployments and testing with very little learning curve. I would say that I love the user-interface and user-experience the most. The visual representations and animations make the tool feel more complete and polished than some of the competitors.

Cons:

Unfortunately I would say that I like least is the cost. As both a full-time developer and a freelance developer, Buddy can provide services to developers of all disciplines. However as a freelance developer who sometimes has to work on a pretty strict budget, some of the entry-level pricing tiers can be a bit steep on a monthly basis.

Reasons for choosing Buddy

I chose Buddy because of their "slick interface" and their customer service. I have had a great relationship with their customer service who are prompt and very knowledgable of their craft.

Oliver N.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Rock solid

Buddy couldn't have come sooner for us. It has solved all of our problems and now allows us to deploy in a variety of complexities in no time at all.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Very regular software updates, adding great new features all of the time - Decent UI that allows us to do everything we need. YAML configuration available to those who don't want it - Sensibly priced, self hosted option for those who want to keep it in-house - Good integration with all of the tools we use and more

Cons:

- We have to manually renew our LetsEncrypt SSL through the CLI tool on the server - Hardware requirements can be a little high if using Docker, but that's more of a Docker problem than Buddy

Reasons for switching to Buddy

We were having so many issues with Deploybot. They slowed down on new features since being sold to another company, now it seems they've been left to die. We also had so many issues with stuck pipelines and web UI bugs. Sometimes the only solution would be to delete everything and start again (if it deleted properly of course, which was another bug)

Daniel L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Buddy Works

It just works. With very little setup and maintenance the solution just works. Features are intuitive, controls are plenty, and the UI is beautiful. I started with the free self-hosted version, and have continued with both the cloud and self-hosted on various teams. The various price points are great for getting the entire Git workflow organized for your team.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- The filesystem access to debug builds and their artifacts - The Dockerized containers for each action that share the filesystem - The many ready to go actions that can be added to any pipeline - The ability to have multiple pipelines running on a given project - The ability to tag and organize repositories into folders

Cons:

- Requires a lot of memory for the self-hosted variant - Inability to use slashes to group repositories under namespaces

Reasons for choosing Buddy

Better UI, simpler setup, self-hosted version, price.

Reasons for switching to Buddy

Price and the self-hosted version.

Josh D.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Indispensable tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We used DeployBot for the longest time but we just had so many inexplicable issues and frustratingly timed downtime along with slow response times. Buddy has wiped the floor on all of these points. It takes a much more user focussed approach to deployment, giving you all the bits and pieces needed to construct a deployment/build system exactly how you need it. The way DB dictated a build system to us previously worked OK for us, but with Buddy you can achieve the same approach and so much more (or less if needed) just by virtue of it giving you complete control over every step. If you wanted to you could use it for other kinds of automation based on repos, for example we have a repo used for running checks on a live Magento database where data issues are not entirely uncommon — this pipeline runs checks there and notifies us if it finds something wrong. Love Buddy, and we'll never be looking back.

Cons:

There are some minor edge case features I'd like to see, it doesn't tick every single possible box, but this is really so minor as whatever I'm referring to can be achieved somehow with thought.

Reasons for switching to Buddy

Had many unexplained and anomalous issues with DeployBot, I think mainly due to it's closed down approach to build pipelines.

André M.

Verified reviewer

Retail

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed May 2019

After moving around we found our CI tool

We have been using it for almost 2 years and it's been great. Now we have 66 configured projects and the structure of pipelines makes it easy for us to maintain all these projects at once.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Really customer focused, good and fast support, easy to use and its always improving fast with new features. It just wotks :)

Cons:

It can be expensive if you need a lot of parallel jobs running. The support with the devs is not 24/7.

Reasons for choosing Buddy

With ideia of pipelines and actions we can reuse some CI configurations for all the projects making it easier to maintain.

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