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 rather than per user. Atlassian publishes no price for it: every tier on its pricing page shows a "USD X" placeholder, so a quote is the only way to get a number. 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.
The lifecycle dates below come from Atlassian's Data Center end of life page, which names Bamboo Data Center among the impacted products and states each milestone to the minute, and the licence terms from Bamboo licensing. Both re-verified 4 October 2026. The Bamboo pricing page is cited only for the edition names and for the fact that it displays no prices. Every price is quote-based, so 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, and a licence includes unlimited projects, unlimited users, 12 months of software maintenance and support, and the application source code. Because local agents no longer function (see below), your remote-agent count is effectively your build concurrency. What a licence costs is the part Atlassian will not tell you in public: the pricing page lists its editions but renders a placeholder instead of each price.
| Edition | Price Atlassian shows | Concurrency | What you can actually learn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Remote Agent | "USD X" | 1 build at a time | Edition named by Atlassian; price is a placeholder |
| 10 Remote Agents | "USD X" | 10 concurrent builds | The only other edition Atlassian names by agent count |
| Other agent counts | Quote only | Set by agent count | Routed to request-a-quote; no public list table exists |
# Checked on atlassian.com/software/bamboo/pricing on 4 October 2026: every tier renders the currency code "USD" followed by a literal "X". The archived 1 December 2025 copy of the same page carries the identical placeholders, so this is Atlassian's standing practice on Bamboo and not a page fault. We deliberately publish no dollar figure here. Numbers circulating for a one-agent or five-agent Bamboo licence trace to aggregators and resellers, not to Atlassian, and they disagree with one another; the licence terms above come from Atlassian's Bamboo licensing page. All editions 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 |
|---|---|
| Feb 2024 | Bamboo Server end of support (Data Center only from here) |
| 16 Dec 2025 | New Data Center apps can no longer be submitted to the 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 |
# The three 2026-2029 milestones are verbatim from Atlassian's Data Center end of life page, which names Bamboo Data Center among the impacted products and states each as 23:59 PST on the day shown (checked 4 October 2026). The Marketplace milestone is verbatim from Atlassian's Marketplace apps announcement: "December 16, 2025: New Data Center apps can no longer be submitted to the Marketplace." The Bamboo Server end-of-support row is given as month only, because we could not find a current Atlassian page that still states the exact day. The 30 March 2026 milestone has passed, so Bamboo is closed to new customers: Atlassian defines a new customer as an organisation that had never owned a paid Data Center seat before that date. Existing customers can keep buying subscriptions, expansions and Marketplace apps until 30 March 2028.
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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