RevenueCat vs Buildkite
Mobile subscription infrastructure — iOS + Android + web in one API
vs. Hybrid CI/CD — your compute, their orchestration. Built for scale.
Pricing tiers
RevenueCat
Starter
$0. Free up to $2,500 MTR (monthly tracked revenue). All core features. Email support.
Free
Pro
$0 base + 1% of MTR above $2,500. All features + priority support + SLA.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Volume discount, dedicated support, custom contract.
Custom
Buildkite
Free (Developer)
$0. Unlimited jobs on self-hosted agents. 10K jobs/mo on Buildkite Hosted.
Free
Buildkite Hosted (usage)
Per-minute on Buildkite-hosted agents. $0.002/min Linux baseline.
$0/mo
Pro
$20/user/mo. SSO. Audit log. Support. Unlimited self-hosted.
$20/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SAML, RBAC, audit SLA, dedicated support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing starter on RevenueCat vs free on Buildkite.
| Metric | RevenueCat | Buildkite |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
RevenueCat · 13 features
- Audiences + Targeting — Target users by cohort, country, event.
- Charts — Cohort retention, LTV, MRR dashboards.
- Customer Center — Native UI for subscription management.
- Data Integrations — Push events to Mixpanel/Amplitude/Segment/etc.
- Entitlements — Server-authoritative feature unlocks independent of SKU.
- Experiments — Built-in A/B testing.
- Offerings + Packages — Remote product groupings + package targeting.
- Paywalls — Remote-configurable native paywall UI templates.
- Purchases — Unified purchase API across stores.
- Receipt Validation — Server-side App Store + Play receipt validation.
- Restore Purchases — Cross-device + reinstall restore.
- Web Billing (Stripe) — Accept subs via web with Stripe, reconcile with mobile.
- Webhooks — Subscription lifecycle events.
Buildkite · 17 features
- Agent Queues — Route jobs to specific agents by tag.
- Annotations — Rich Markdown in build UI.
- Artifacts — Upload + download build artifacts.
- Audit Log — Enterprise audit.
- Automatic Cancel — Cancel stale builds on new push.
- Automatic + Manual Retries — Configurable retry semantics.
- Buildkite Hosted Agents — Managed agents (opt-in).
- Dynamic Pipelines — Generate YAML in a command step.
- input Step — Block for user input.
- Parallelism — Parallel step scaling with BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB.
- Pipelines — YAML + optional dynamic upload.
- Plugins — Agent-level lifecycle hooks.
- Secrets (Vault) — Integrate with HashiCorp Vault, SSM.
- Teams + RBAC — Enterprise permissions.
- Test Engine — Flaky test + timing insights.
- trigger Step — Fire another pipeline.
- wait Step — Sync point in pipeline.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | RevenueCat | Buildkite |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | bk (Buildkite CLI) |
| SDK | RevenueCat Android SDK, RevenueCat Flutter, RevenueCat iOS SDK, RevenueCat React Native, RevenueCat Web Billing | — |
| REST | RevenueCat REST API | Buildkite REST API |
| GRAPHQL | — | Buildkite GraphQL API |
| OTHER | RevenueCat Dashboard, RevenueCat Webhooks | Buildkite Agent, Buildkite Dashboard, Buildkite Plugins, pipeline.yml |
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