Jenkins Pricing

Jenkins Pricing Overview

Jenkins is completely free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License. There are no licensing fees, subscription costs, or per-user charges associated with Jenkins itself. Organizations only pay for the infrastructure required to run their Jenkins servers.

Infrastructure Costs

The primary costs associated with Jenkins are infrastructure-related: server hosting (cloud VMs or on-premises hardware), storage for build artifacts and logs, and network bandwidth. A typical Jenkins master might run on a 2-4 vCPU instance, with additional agent nodes scaled as needed.

CloudBees Jenkins Platform

CloudBees offers a commercial distribution of Jenkins called CloudBees CI, which adds enterprise features like role-based access control, high availability, support, and compliance tools. Pricing starts at approximately $50 per user per month for CloudBees CI.

Total Cost Considerations

While Jenkins itself is free, organizations should factor in the cost of maintenance, plugin management, security patching, and infrastructure management. The total cost of ownership can be higher than managed CI/CD services when accounting for operational overhead.