Service quotas

Service quotas are put in place to ensure that Buildkite can provide a reliable service to all customers. These quotas are scoped to your organization, and can be increased by emailing Support at support@buildkite.com and providing details about your use case.

The following table lists Buildkite's default service quota values.

Service quota type Description and default limit
Artifact batch total file size

The maximum cumulative size of artifacts that can be uploaded to Buildkite from an agent in a single job using the buildkite-agent artifact upload command.

Default: 50 GiB
Artifact file size

The maximum size of an artifact that can be uploaded to Buildkite from an agent.

Default: 10 GiB
Artifact retention

The maximum time we'll store artifacts for, in days, before assuming it has been deleted by an S3 Lifecycle rule, which must be configured separately.

Default: 180 days
Artifacts per job

The maximum number of artifacts that can be uploaded to Buildkite per job.

Default: 250,000 artifacts
Invitations per organization

The maximum number of pending invitations for an organization.

Default: 20 invitations
Jobs created per pipeline upload

The maximum number of jobs that can be created in a single pipeline upload.

Default: 500 jobs
Jobs per build

The maximum number of jobs that can be created in a single pipeline build (including job retries).

Default: 4,000 jobs
Log size per job

The maximum file-size of a job's log (uploaded by an agent to Buildkite in chunks).

Default: 1,024 MiB
Pipeline uploads per build

The maximum number of pipeline uploads that can be performed in a single build.

Default: 500 pipeline uploads
REST API rate limit per organization

The number of requests an organization can make to Organization endpoints on the REST API, per minute.

Default: 200 requests/min
Slack services per organization

The maximum number of Slack services that can be added to an organization.

Default: 50 services
Teams per organization

The maximum number of teams that an organization can have.

Default: 250 teams
Trigger build depth per pipeline

The maximum depth of a chain of trigger builds.

Default: 10 builds
Webhook services per organization

The maximum number of Webhook services that can be added to an organization.

Default: 15 services