Code Hosting & CI/CD · reliability comparison
Buildkite vs Depot: which is more reliable? (2026)
Depot is more reliable than Buildkite, scoring 85.5 vs 65.8 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Buildkite reported 29 incidents and Depot reported 9, with effective uptime of 99.57% and 99.89% respectively. Depot resolves incidents faster on average (1h 6m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Buildkite | Depot |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 65.8 | 85.5 |
| Rank (code hosting & CI platforms) | #6 | #2 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.57% | 99.89% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 29 | 9 |
| Partial / major outages | 5 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 32m | 1h 6m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Buildkite and Depot differ
- Buildkite reported 3.2× as many incidents as Depot over the last 90 days (29 vs 9).
- Buildkite had 5 partial or major outages, compared with 4 for Depot.
- Depot fixes problems faster: 1h 6m on average, against 1h 32m for Buildkite.
- Buildkite's longest outage on record lasted 6h 47m (Sep 9, 2026); Depot's lasted 1h 55m (Oct 8, 2026).
90-day uptime
Buildkite
Depot
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Buildkite incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 2h 1m
Affected: Job Queue
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 32m
Increased latency and error rates
Affected: REST API, Agent API
- InformationalOct 26, 2026 · resolved in <1m
- InformationalOct 24, 2026 · resolved in <1m
Affected: REST API, Web, Agent API, Remote MCP Server, Job Queue
- Degraded performanceOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 46m
Delays with Hosted Agents jobs
Affected: Hosted Agents
- InformationalOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 1d
Recent Depot incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 3h 2m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 1h 55m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
- Degraded performanceOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 1h 41m
Slow disk I/O for US container builds
Affected: us-east-1
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved in 1h 48m
Slow disk I/O for EU container builds
Affected: eu-central-1
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 19m
Elevated queue times for Sandboxes and Depot CI Jobs
Affected: Depot CI
- Partial outageSep 20, 2026 · resolved in 6m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
Other code hosting & CI platforms to consider
- Bitrise · #1 · 99.90% uptime
- GitLab · #3 · 100% uptime
- Bitbucket · #4 · 99.74% uptime
- Azure DevOps · #5 · 98.62% uptime
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