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Buddy vs Semaphore

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by Buddy Works

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Pricing: Free plan with 1 seat and a $1 monthly usage credit; Pro $29 and Team $299 a month per workspace with 1 seat each, plus pay-as-you-go compute and storage

Buddy is a CI/CD platform from Warsaw's Buddy Works for teams building pipelines in a visual editor or YAML, with usage-based billing and AI agent sandboxes.

17 /18 features Full profile

Semaphore

by Semaphore

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Pricing: Usage-based cloud: $15 of credits a month at no cost, then from $0.003 a hosted machine minute, no seat fees. Community Edition free to self-host; Enterprise Edition priced on request.

Semaphore is an open source CI/CD platform built for engineering teams and coding agents, self-hosted or run in its usage-based cloud with no per-seat fees.

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Feature Comparison

CI/CD Tools features side-by-side

Feature	Buddy 17/18 features	Semaphore 14/18 features
Pipeline as code in the repository Pipelines are defined in a versioned config file that lives beside the source code, not in a UI.	Yes	Yes
Pipeline triggers on push and pull request Commits, tags and pull requests start a pipeline automatically without a manual click.	Yes	Yes
Parallel jobs and matrix builds Runs independent jobs at the same time and fans one job out across versions, platforms or shards.	Yes	Yes
Dependency caching between pipeline runs Restores dependency folders or Docker layers from a previous run so jobs skip re-downloading.	Yes	Yes
Self-hosted runners Teams can register their own machines or Kubernetes clusters as build agents alongside hosted ones.	Yes	Yes
Hosted macOS, Windows and Linux runners The vendor supplies build machines for all three operating systems, including Arm variants.	Yes	No
Scheduled pipelines A pipeline can run on a cron schedule rather than only in response to a code event.	Yes	Yes
Manual approval gates before deploy A pipeline stage can pause until a named person or group approves it in the UI.	Yes	Yes
Protected deployment environments Named environments restrict who may deploy to them and keep a history of every deployment.	Yes	Yes
Masked secrets for pipeline jobs Credentials are stored encrypted, masked in logs and injected only into the jobs that need them.	Yes	No
OIDC cloud credentials for jobs Jobs obtain short-lived cloud credentials through OpenID Connect instead of long-lived stored keys.	Yes	Yes
Reusable pipeline templates Common steps are packaged once and imported across many pipelines from a shared library or catalog.	Yes	No
Test reports with flaky test detection Parses test output to show failures per test and flags tests that pass and fail intermittently.	Yes	Yes
Artifact passing between jobs Files produced by one job can be uploaded and consumed by later jobs or downloaded after the run.	Yes	Yes
Pipeline duration and success analytics Dashboards show run times, failure rates and queue waits per pipeline over time.	Yes	Yes
Merge queue Merges are serialised so each change is tested against the latest default branch before it lands.	No	No
Free monthly build minutes A no-cost tier includes a monthly allowance of hosted build minutes for small teams.	Yes	Yes
Self-managed CI server edition The whole CI platform can be installed on the team's own infrastructure, not just the runners.	Yes	Yes
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Buddy 17/18 features

Pipeline as code in the repository: Yes
Pipeline triggers on push and pull request: Yes
Parallel jobs and matrix builds: Yes
Dependency caching between pipeline runs: Yes
Self-hosted runners: Yes
Hosted macOS, Windows and Linux runners: Yes
Scheduled pipelines: Yes
Manual approval gates before deploy: Yes
Protected deployment environments: Yes
Masked secrets for pipeline jobs: Yes
OIDC cloud credentials for jobs: Yes
Reusable pipeline templates: Yes
Test reports with flaky test detection: Yes
Artifact passing between jobs: Yes
Pipeline duration and success analytics: Yes
Merge queue: No
Free monthly build minutes: Yes
Self-managed CI server edition: Yes

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Semaphore 14/18 features

Pipeline as code in the repository: Yes
Pipeline triggers on push and pull request: Yes
Parallel jobs and matrix builds: Yes
Dependency caching between pipeline runs: Yes
Self-hosted runners: Yes
Hosted macOS, Windows and Linux runners: No
Scheduled pipelines: Yes
Manual approval gates before deploy: Yes
Protected deployment environments: Yes
Masked secrets for pipeline jobs: No
OIDC cloud credentials for jobs: Yes
Reusable pipeline templates: No
Test reports with flaky test detection: Yes
Artifact passing between jobs: Yes
Pipeline duration and success analytics: Yes
Merge queue: No
Free monthly build minutes: Yes
Self-managed CI server edition: Yes

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Pricing

Buddy

Free plan with 1 seat and a $1 monthly usage credit; Pro $29 and Team $299 a month per workspace with 1 seat each, plus pay-as-you-go compute and storage

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Semaphore

Usage-based cloud: $15 of credits a month at no cost, then from $0.003 a hosted machine minute, no seat fees. Community Edition free to self-host; Enterprise Edition priced on request.

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