Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners

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Hi everyone,

We just shipped Bitbucket Pipelines self-hosted runners v5.0 with several upgrades.

What's new:

This release includes the ability to optimize builds with customizable resource allocations per step, use Docker volume mounts to share data between steps, and, to meet any compliance needs, you can point build artifacts to be stored in your private cloud.

We’re also setting the stage for future enhancements, such as APIs for managing your runners and the ability to run multiple, disposable macOS VMs on a single machine for scalable iOS/macOS development.

Pricing model:

With this upgrade, we are also announcing the move to a paid licensing model. We recognize that self-hosted runners are a crucial requirement for teams to meet their compliance obligations. Moving from free to a paid model enables us to accelerate development, deliver enhanced support, and build the enterprise-grade experience you expect.

To allow time for transition, runners prior to v5.0 will remain available and free to use until Jun 3, 2026.

Review our blog for details on what’s shipping in this release, pricing details, and the transition timeline.

Let us know if you have any questions and share any feedback on future enhancements you'd want to see.

[Joris Vleminckx]

So, we're going to have to pay you to run our runners *on our own hardware*... wow, just wow.

[Louis-André Bergeron]

Business Team to dev team : "Please prepare a feature update, we want to hide a greedy cash grab behind a couple of features so it doesn't look as bad"

[James Kerns]

Thanks for making us pay for running on our own hardware. Appreciate it.

[Ferry Schoenmakers]

Seriously? So you're making us pay you to run stuff on our own hardware!? That's incredible!
Gitlab, here we come...

[Johannes Bauer]

This is really annoying.

We use a lot of self-hosted runners for our customers, because it is the only way to deploy something to the customer environments.

Now we have to pay for all these runners that are not even hosted in the Bitbucket cloud.

Unbelievable!