We were burning £300/month on Bitbucket pipeline minutes before a single test suite was finished. So I built the alterna

I'm a front-end developer at a UK agency. We manage around 20 active client projects at any given time — e-commerce builds, custom integrations, the usual — and for the last few years we've been progressively rolling out Cypress and Playwright test suites across them. It went well, until we looked at the bill. During the test-building phase alone — not full runs, just iterating on the suites themselves — our Bitbucket pipeline costs jumped by £300 a month. That's before a single complete test ru