# Bitrise (mobile CI)

Official pricing: https://bitrise.io/pricing  
Category: macos · Isolation: vm

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Starter plan: flat $99/$199/$299 per month (1/2/4 concurrent Medium builds), unlimited usage** (pool)
- **Per-minute 'Zero Margin' machine cost, macOS** (sizes): macOS Medium (M4 5 CPU / 6 GB) 5 vCPU/6 GiB $0.432/h; macOS Large (M4 5 CPU / 14 GB) 5 vCPU/14 GiB $0.576/h; macOS 4Large (M4 Pro 7 CPU / 27 GB) 7 vCPU/27 GiB $0.864/h; macOS X Large (M4 10 CPU / 28 GB) 10 vCPU/28 GiB $1.152/h; macOS 4X Large (M4 Pro 14 CPU / 54 GB) 14 vCPU/54 GiB $1.758/h
- **Per-minute machine cost, Linux** (sizes): Linux 2S 2 vCPU/8 GiB $0.132/h; Linux M 4 vCPU/16 GiB $0.264/h; Linux 2M 6 vCPU/24 GiB $0.396/h; Linux L 8 vCPU/32 GiB $0.534/h; Linux 4L 14 vCPU/56 GiB $0.924/h; Linux XL 16 vCPU/56 GiB $1.062/h
- **Remote Dev Environments, macOS VM (per-minute, monthly cap per VM)** (sizes): RDE Basic macOS M2 Pro Large 6 vCPU/14 GiB $1.728/h; RDE Pro macOS M2 Pro X Large 12 vCPU/28 GiB $3.456/h
- **Remote Dev Environments, Linux VM (per-minute, monthly cap per VM)** (sizes): RDE Basic Linux Small 2 vCPU/8 GiB $0.264/h; RDE Pro Linux Medium 4 vCPU/16 GiB $0.528/h
- **Build Hub (GitHub Actions runners), macOS, prepaid monthly compute budget** (sizes): BH macOS M4 Large 5 vCPU/14 GiB $1.8/h; BH macOS M4 XLarge 10 vCPU/28 GiB $3.6/h [alt]

## Features

Yes: pause/resume, persistent disk, idle auto-stop, custom image (Docker or snapshot), your own Docker/OCI image, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, root, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, preinstalled agents, SSH, static egress IP, self-hosting, BYOC, SOC 2, SSO, arm64, macOS, Python, Node.js, webhooks, EU data residency, MCP server, agent harness API, gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), firewall inside (nftables)

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, volumes, ≥24 h sessions, start from your own snapshot, nested virtualization, systemd, code interpreter, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, public IPv4, HTTPS preview URLs, custom domains, raw TCP inbound, egress allowlist, private networking, open source, HIPAA, GPU, Windows, GPU desktop, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, hosted agent API (their own agent), inbound access rules, secret proxy, secret proxy for any API, extra volumes, shared volumes

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/bitrise.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- Sweep flagged $0.0072-0.0096/min as ~10x too low: they ARE the official per-minute machine costs on bitrise.io/pricing ('Zero Margin Infra'); the plan fee (build tiers) is the margin. Treat the per-minute modes as a floor.
- Remote Dev Environments / Build Hub products have different rates (e.g. macOS overage $0.0288/min Basic, $0.0576/min Pro) and are not encoded.
- CI-only product: jobs are build workflows, max 90-240 min; not a general agent sandbox.
- Hobby credits: credit-to-minute conversion not published.
- Pro fee ($218/mo, 250 builds) is added to per-minute usage; workloads over 250 builds/month need a higher, unencoded Pro tier. Whether some infra minutes are included in the Pro fee is not clearly stated.
- Utility builds beta (since 2026-08-06, Pro and Pro trial): builds on Linux Small that finish in <5 min don't count toward the build quota; minutes still metered.
- Pro trial (30 days, 500 builds) now requires a credit card (since 2026-03-24); docs say new sign-ups cannot start CI builds without the trial or a paid plan, so 'Hobby requires no card' may no longer hold for new accounts.

## How this provider charges


Bitrise is a mobile CI/CD platform with macOS (Apple silicon) and Linux build machines and no Windows. It charges a **plan fee sized by builds/month** and publishes a per-minute **"Zero Margin Infra"** machine cost that it says is passed through "without any profit-generating margin".

The sweep flagged $0.0072-0.0096/min as about 10x too low. The rendered official pricing page (dump in `raw/bitrise_io_pricing.txt`) **confirms those are the published per-minute machine costs**. They are low because the plan fee carries the margin.

## Regime table

| # | Regime | When it applies | How billed | Numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobby | Free | 300 credits/month (credit value unpublished), 1 private app, 5 concurrent, 90-min timeout | $0 | https://bitrise.io/pricing |
| 2 | Starter | Small teams (≤100 builds/month recommended) | Flat monthly fee, **"Unlimited usage, with up to 4 concurrent builds"**, Medium machines only, 3 private apps, 210-min timeout | $99/month ($89 billed annually) | same |
| 3 | Pro | 250-2,000 builds/month tiers | Plan fee per build tier with 3,000-24,000 "Zero Margin Infra minutes/month". Up to 10 concurrent macOS / 30 Linux | From $218/month ($200 annual) | same |
| 4 | Pro PAYG overage | Above the tier's builds/minutes | "Premium PAYG rate". Extra builds up to +50% of the limit; minutes unlimited | **Rate not published** | same (FAQ) |
| 5 | Extra Build Capacity | Annual Pro | Pre-buy up to 4 months of extra builds/minutes; expires at cycle end | Price not published | same |
| 6 | Per-minute machine cost, macOS | Any plan that allows the machine | Per minute | Medium M4 5 CPU/6 GB (or M2 Pro 4/6) **$0.0072**; Large M4 5/14 **$0.0096**; 4Large M4 Pro 7/27 $0.0144; X Large M4 10/28 $0.0192; 4X Large M4 Pro 14/54 $0.0293 | same ("How much does a minute on different machines cost?") |
| 7 | Per-minute machine cost, Linux | same | Per minute | 2S 2/8 $0.0022; M 4/16 $0.0044; 2M 6/24 $0.0066; L 8/32 $0.0089; 4L 14/56 $0.0154; XL 16/56 $0.0177; 3XL 24/96 $0.0264; 5XL 32/128 $0.0352; 7XL 48/192 $0.0528 | same |
| 8 | Enterprise | 2,000+ builds/month | Custom. Dedicated or self-hosted AWS runners, X Large / M4 Pro machines, up to 4 h builds | Contact sales | same |
| 9 | Remote Dev Environments / Build Hub | Separate products | Monthly base + per-minute up to caps (e.g. macOS overage $0.0288/min Basic, $0.0576/min Pro) | Not encoded | same |

## Gotchas

1. The per-minute figures are a **floor**. The real bill is dominated by the plan fee and by PAYG premium rates, which are not published.
2. Starter's "unlimited usage" is capped by 4 concurrent Medium machines (6 GB RAM each).
3. Builds are workflow runs with a 90-240 min timeout. This is not a general sandbox. No Windows.

## Worked example

Workload: 4 vCPU / 8 GiB, 50 concurrent × 8 h/day × 22 days (8,800 h = 528,000 min), 30% CPU, 50 GiB snapshots, 100 GiB egress. Illustrative only: CI jobs, not sessions.

- **Machine cost** (macOS Large, M4 5/14): 8,800 × $0.576 = **$5,068.80/month**.
- 50 concurrent exceeds Pro's 10, and 528,000 min exceeds Pro's 24,000 min/month, so this needs **Enterprise (price unpublished)**.
- **Starter** caps at 4 concurrent Medium builds for $99 flat. It cannot run 50.
- Snapshots and egress are not applicable or not priced.

Sources: https://bitrise.io/pricing (rendered dump: research/raw/bitrise_io_pricing.txt)