Bitrise Remote Dev Environments

Bitrise built Remote Dev Environments, launched on 17 September 2026, around one idea: the machine where code is written should be the same kind of machine where it is built and tested. The product gives developers on-demand cloud virtual machines that draw on the machine images, toolchains and caches that Bitrise's CI and Build Hub services also use. Those are the company's existing build services for mobile teams.

Three ways to use a cloud machine

Bitrise describes three layers of use. At the first, an engineer attaches an editor such as VS Code, Cursor or JetBrains, or connects over SSH or VNC, to a machine running in the cloud. At the second, a coding agent is pre-installed on the machine and works with the customer's own API keys. At the third, fully autonomous agents pick up a ticket and work through it alone: they start a machine, then write code, test it, raise the pull request and stop the machine. Many of them can be run side by side, coordinated by an open-source MCP server.

Templates, persistent disks and archiving

Environments are created from templates that include warm-up scripts, so a machine arrives ready to work rather than needing a long setup. The disk persists across restarts. When a project goes quiet, an environment can be put into storage and brought back later, instead of staying switched on and metered, which is how the company puts the idea of starting in seconds and pausing over a weekend.

Machines, regions and access controls

The fleet combines Apple Silicon machines (M2 Pro, M4 and M4 Pro) with Linux machines ranging from 2 up to 48 vCPU, hosted in data centers in the US and the EU. Credentials are scoped per session, and each workspace has quotas. Bitrise says that a security review already completed for its existing services carries over to Remote Dev Environments, because the product runs on the same infrastructure.

Plans

Bitrise offers a Basic and a Pro plan, each with an allowance of included minutes per operating system, a limit on concurrent machines and a monthly spend cap, plus a custom Enterprise arrangement. Bitrise describes itself as the mobile DevOps company, and this is a separate product from its CI platform rather than a replacement for it.