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Git hosting and Bitbucket Pipelines from $3.65 per user a month, with 2,500 build minutes and Jira integration on every plan.
Git hosting with built-in CI and Jira integration on every plan, from $3.65 per user a month.
Bitbucket is the code host in Atlassian’s cloud: every plan, including Free, lists the Jira integration that links branches, pull requests and deployments to Jira issues. Standard costs $3.65 per user a month with 2,500 Pipelines build minutes, the lowest per-user price here. Premium, at $8, adds enforced merge checks, deployment permissions and IP allowlisting. SAML SSO and the organization audit log come with an Atlassian Guard subscription, which also covers the organization’s other Atlassian cloud apps.
Against 3 other products we reviewed in Code hosting and CI: what you pay for with each, the five access facts, the plan limits we recorded and each review's bottom line. The note under the table says how each one was checked.
| Metric | Bitbucket | GitHub | Azure DevOps | GitLab |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Built-in reachGit hosting with built-in CI and Jira integration on every plan, from $3.65 per user a month. | Worth the pricePrivate repositories, pull request reviews and 3,000 CI minutes for $4 per user, with a free plan that has no user cap. | Worth the priceGit hosting, CI and boards free for 5 users, with an audit log, EU data location and Entra ID sign-in on every plan. | Saves engineering timeCode hosting, CI with 10,000 minutes, SAML SSO, audit events and approval rules in one $29 Premium seat, also available self-managed. |
| Overall score | 6.2 | 9.2Best | 8.2 | 7.2 |
| Free option | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan |
| Card to start | –Not measured | –Not measured | No card needed | No card needed |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $3.65/user/mo | $4/user/mo | $6/user/mo | $29/user/mo |
| Pricing model | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing units | Users, plus build minutes beyond the plan | Users, plus CI minutes beyond the plan | Users after the first 5, plus parallel CI jobs | Users, plus compute minutes beyond the plan |
| Free plan | Up to 5 users, 50 build minutes/mo | Unlimited users, 2,000 CI minutes/mo | 5 users, 1,800 CI minutes/mo | 5 users per private group, 400 CI minutes/mo |
| 10 developers, 3,000 CI minutes/mo | $46.50 (Standard plus 1,000 minutes) | $40 (Team) | $70 (Basic plus one hosted parallel job) | $290 (Premium, billed annually) |
| CI minutes on the entry paid plan | 2,500/mo; then $10 per 1,000 | 3,000/mo; then $0.006/min (Linux 2-core) | 1,800/mo; a $40 hosted job removes the limit | 10,000/mo; then $10 per 1,000 |
| Security scanning add-ons | None listed; Code insights shows third-party results | Secret Protection $19 and Code Security $30 per active committer/mo | Code Security $30 and Secret Protection $19 per committer/mo | Basic SAST and secret detection in all tiers; full scanning in Ultimate (custom price) |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Both (Bitbucket Cloud in scope) | Both (SOC 2 Type 2 report listed on Enterprise) | Both | Both |
| EU data residency | Bitbucket not listed for data residency | Enterprise (GHE.com: EU, Australia, US, Japan) | Europe chosen when creating the organization | GitLab Dedicated (region of your choice), by demo |
| SAML SSO | Atlassian Guard add-on ($3/user/mo at 10 users) | Enterprise (from $21/user/mo) | Microsoft Entra ID sign-in, all plans | Premium |
| Self-managed version | Data Center: not sold to new customers | GitHub Enterprise Server, covered by Enterprise | Azure DevOps Server, at listed prices | Free, Premium ($29) and Ultimate |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Bitbucket has the lowest per-user price here and Jira integration on every plan. SSO and audit logs come through Atlassian Guard, and there is no data residency or new self-managed option. | From its public pages, GitHub lists the lowest price here for 10 developers and covers the scenario on its $4 Team plan. SAML SSO starts on Enterprise, and scanning is an add-on. | From its public pages, Azure DevOps puts an audit log, EU data location and Entra ID sign-in on every plan and covers our team for $70. CI is bought as parallel jobs, and the free minutes need a linked Azure subscription. | From its public pages, GitLab includes the most CI minutes and team controls in its entry paid plan, at the highest listed price here for 10 developers. Full scanning sits in Ultimate, priced by sales. |
Evidence: Bitbucket: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; GitHub: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Azure DevOps: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; GitLab: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Review from public pages
Written from Bitbucket's public pages (pricing, security or privacy, and docs) as read on Oct 15, 2026. We did not sign up, and no hands-on run is published yet.
We read the Bitbucket pricing page, Atlassian's Bitbucket licensing FAQ, the Atlassian Guard pricing page, Atlassian's SOC 2, ISO 27001 and data residency pages, the Data Center end-of-life and Hybrid License pages, and the runner docs on Oct 15, 2026; we did not sign up for this review. Bitbucket has three plans: Free (up to 5 users), Standard ($3.65 per user a month) and Premium ($8), with 50, 2,500 and 3,500 build minutes. The price stayed the same when we set the team-size selector to 10.
The licensing FAQ explains billing changes under way: from Oct 26, 2026, allowances on monthly plans are pooled across the Atlassian organization, and from Dec 3, 2026, annual plans are billed for usage beyond their allowances, which they currently are not. Builds on self-hosted runners use no build minutes; standard self-hosted runners are free up to 100, and premium runners cost $15 per concurrent build slot.
SAML SSO and the organization audit log are listed as requiring Atlassian Guard, which showed $3 per user a month at 10 users. A support article also describes a workspace audit log, kept 30 days, that needs no Guard subscription; it does not name a plan. Atlassian's data residency docs list Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery and Loom, not Bitbucket.
Standard is $3.65 per user a month, unchanged at 10 users on the team-size selector.
vs GitHub: GitHub Team is $4 per user; GitLab Premium is $29 billed annually.
Branches, pull requests and deployments show in Jira issues, and pull request events can move issues automatically.
Atlassian Guard Standard adds SAML SSO, SCIM and the organization audit log for $3 per user a month at 10 users.
vs GitHub: GitHub lists SAML SSO on Enterprise, from $21 per user.
Builds on your own runners use no build minutes, and standard self-hosted runners are free up to 100.
Atlassian’s pages say new customers can no longer buy Data Center subscriptions, and the Bitbucket Hybrid License (early 2027) is only for existing Data Center customers.
Atlassian’s data residency docs list Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery and Loom, not Bitbucket.
Standard lets you recommend merge conditions; blocking a merge until checks pass needs Premium at $8 per user.
From Dec 3, 2026, annual plans are billed for build minutes, Git LFS and Packages beyond their allowances, which they currently are not.
Workaround: Admins can cap or disable extra usage in Atlassian Administration.
Bitbucket bills per user a month: Standard $3.65, Premium $8. Build minutes beyond the plan (2,500 or 3,500) cost $10 per 1,000; LFS is $10 per 100 GB. SAML SSO needs Atlassian Guard: Standard showed $3 per user a month at 10 users.
For 10 developers and 3,000 minutes, Standard is 10 × $3.65 = $36.50 plus $10 for the 500 minutes over the allowance: $46.50, if minutes come in blocks of 1,000 as the pricing page describes ($41.50 per minute, our arithmetic). Premium covers 3,500 minutes for $80. With Guard, Standard comes to $76.50.
GitLab’s pricing FAQ says GitLab imports projects from Bitbucket. For Data Center customers moving the other way, Atlassian offers a Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant and a Pipelines importer for Bamboo.
From its public pages, Bitbucket has the lowest per-user price here and Jira integration on every plan. SSO and audit logs come through Atlassian Guard, and there is no data residency or new self-managed option.
| Limit | As recorded |
|---|---|
| Billing units | Users, plus build minutes beyond the plan |
| Free plan | Up to 5 users, 50 build minutes/mo |
| 10 developers, 3,000 CI minutes/mo | $46.50 (Standard plus 1,000 minutes) |
| CI minutes on the entry paid plan | 2,500/mo; then $10 per 1,000 |
| Security scanning add-ons | None listed; Code insights shows third-party results |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Both (Bitbucket Cloud in scope) |
| EU data residency | Bitbucket not listed for data residency |
| SAML SSO | Atlassian Guard add-on ($3/user/mo at 10 users) |
| Self-managed version | Data Center: not sold to new customers |
Read from the vendor's public pages on Oct 15, 2026. No hands-on run is published yet. How we check
We have not published a sign-up run for Bitbucket yet. The access facts above were read from its sign-up and pricing pages on Oct 15, 2026.
We have not published API calls for Bitbucket yet.
Bitbucket lists 4 plans. The cheapest paid plan, Standard, costs $3.65/user/mo.
Prices as listed, USD, excluding tax; observed 2026-10-15.
Source: atlassian.com pricing page. Prices change; the observed date above is when our agent read them.
We read the pricing, security and docs pages of three code hosting and CI services on the same day and scored them on the same six indicators. How each one bills, what 10 developers and 3,000 CI minutes cost, and who should pick which.
