Atlassian Bamboo pricing in 2026
./bamboo --data-center --per-agent --sunset-2029
How much does Bamboo cost, and is it free?
Bamboo is sold only as Bamboo Data Center, licensed per remote build agent starting at $1,200 per year for one agent (unlimited jobs, projects and users). There is no free tier, only a 30-day evaluation. The catch that changes everything: Atlassian closed new-customer sales on 30 March 2026, so you can no longer buy Bamboo as a new customer, and the product reaches full end of life on 28 March 2029, when instances go read-only.
Bamboo is Atlassian's long-running CI/CD server, tightly integrated with Bitbucket and Jira. In 2026 the pricing question is unusual because Bamboo is in the final stretch of its life. Bamboo Server was discontinued (end of support 15 February 2024) leaving Data Center as the only edition, and Data Center itself is now on a published sunset runway. This page lays out what Bamboo actually costs for the customers who still run it, why there is no free or cheap way in anymore, and what the end-of-life timeline means for planning.
Pricing and lifecycle dates come from Atlassian's Bamboo pricing page and the End of support announcements for Bamboo, re-verified July 2026. Above the entry tier, list prices are quote-based; confirm your renewal quote with Atlassian or your solution partner.
What Bamboo Data Center costs
Bamboo is licensed by remote-agent count, not by user. Every tier includes unlimited jobs, unlimited projects, unlimited users, high availability via a cold-standby node, and 12 months of maintenance and support. Because local agents no longer function (see below), your remote-agent count is effectively your build concurrency.
| Tier | Annual price | Concurrency | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 remote agent | $1,200 / yr | 1 build at a time | Entry tier, published price |
| ~5 remote agents | ~$2,000 / yr | 5 concurrent builds | Reported reseller figure, approximate |
| Higher tiers | Quote-based | up to 2,000 agents | No public list table; get a quote |
# $1,200 entry price per Atlassian's pricing page. The ~$2,000 five-agent figure is a reported reseller price, not an Atlassian-published tier; treat it as approximate. All tiers are now sales-restricted (see lifecycle below).
The lifecycle that overrides the price
For most CI/CD tools the pricing table is the story. For Bamboo the end-of-life runway matters more, because it decides whether you can buy at all and how long any purchase is useful. Bamboo is part of Atlassian's broader exit from self-managed Data Center products, and unlike Jira or Confluence there is no Bamboo cloud to migrate to.
| Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 15 Feb 2024 | Bamboo Server end of support (Data Center only from here) |
| 16 Dec 2025 | No new Data Center apps accepted to the Atlassian Marketplace |
| 30 Mar 2026 | New-customer license sales end (you can no longer buy Bamboo new) |
| 30 Mar 2028 | End of license sales and expansions for existing customers |
| 28 Mar 2029 | Full end of life: licences expire, instances go read-only |
# As of July 2026 the 30 March 2026 milestone has already passed, so Bamboo is closed to new customers. Existing customers have until 30 March 2028 to renew or expand.
Why there is no free Bamboo
The query "atlassian bamboo free" comes up a lot, usually from people comparing it to Jenkins or TeamCity. The honest answer is that Bamboo has never had a free production tier, and in 2026 it has no free path at all. Jenkins is free and open-source; TeamCity gives you a free Professional edition with three build agents and 100 build configurations; Bamboo gives you a 30-day evaluation and then a bill. And since 30 March 2026 even the evaluation and new-customer licences are gone.
There is also a technical wrinkle worth knowing if you are budgeting agents. Bamboo used to include local agents that ran inside the server's own JVM at no extra licence cost. Local agents were deprecated in Bamboo 8.0 and stopped functioning entirely from Bamboo 9.6 onward. In any current Bamboo, every build runs on a licensed remote agent, so there is no longer a "free" local-agent capacity to lean on. Your agent tier is your real concurrency ceiling.
Where Bamboo teams are going
With no cloud Bamboo and a hard 2029 deadline, every Bamboo shop is on a migration clock. Atlassian points its own customers toward Bitbucket Pipelines for teams that want to stay in the Atlassian ecosystem. Teams that keep source in GitHub tend to move to GitHub Actions; GitLab shops to GitLab CI; and teams that want to keep everything self-hosted look at Jenkins or self-hosted Buildkite agents.
The migration itself is the real cost, not the licence. Bamboo Specs and per-plan configuration have to be rewritten into the target platform's pipeline syntax, which is closer to a rewrite than a transcription. Our Bamboo migration cost calculator models the engineering hours and the new run-rate across each destination, and the Jenkins vs Bamboo comparison covers the most common like-for-like self-hosted move.
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