CI WASTE CALCULATOR

How much are flaky and inefficient tests costing you?

Get a personalized breakdown of your annual CI waste. Takes Under 2 minutes!

STEP 1 OF 2

Tell us about your team and testing habits

All values are editable. Defaults are industry benchmarks — adjust to match your environment.

👥 A — TEAM PROFILE

Who's building and shipping?

50 engineers

All devs committing to repos with CI pipelines

10 engineers

Dedicated QA, SDET, and automation engineers

$75/hr

Blended salary + benefits + overhead. Industry median: $75–$95/hr

⚙️ B — CI BUILD PROFILE

How does your pipeline behave?

60 min

End-to-end time for one complete suite run. Industry median: 45–90 min

4 builds/dev/day

Commits, PRs, and retries. Typical range: 3–6

0 agentic builds/day

Builds triggered by AI coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Copilot Workspace, Cursor, Devin). Default: 0

40%

What % of your builds run the complete suite rather than a subset?

3/week

Full-suite reruns triggered manually for confidence — not by a failure. Conservative: 2–5/week

☁️ C — CLOUD COMPUTE

What does your CI infrastructure cost?

$5,200/mo

Your monthly cloud runner spend that goes specifically to running tests (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins agents, etc.). Typical: $2k–$15k/mo

🔍 D — TRIAGE AND FAILURES

What does debugging CI failures actually cost?

15/week

How many CI failures require a human to investigate each week?

3 hrs

Time from alert to root cause. Often longer than teams estimate.

35%

Failures with no code change — infrastructure noise, timing, environment. Industry: 25–45%

ESTIMATED ANNUAL WASTE $0
YOUR RESULTS

Here's what inefficient testing is costing you

Based on your inputs and CloudBees Smart Tests production benchmarks.

ANNUAL TEST COMPUTE COST

$0

Running full suites on every build

TRIAGE LABOR (REAL BUGS)

$0

Engineers debugging real failures instead of shipping

FLAKY TESTS (LABOR + RERUNS)

$0

Investigation and reruns from failures with no real bug

TOTAL ANNUAL CI WASTE

$0

This grows 15–20% annually as your test suite expands.

Every red build costs you $0. How many triggered this week?

Teams typically see 10–25% faster PR/build feedback cycles within the first quarter. Testing only what matters, translates to 20–50% less wasted CI spend (fewer unnecessary test minutes + less compute churn).

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