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Dev tools · October 10, 2024

RunsOn

10x cheaper GitHub Actions runners, self-hosted on AWS

RunsOn launched on October 10, 2024 with 142 votes, #348 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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What it does

10x cheaper runners for GitHub Actions workflows. Fully self-hosted on AWS. Between 30%-50% faster than official GitHub runners. Linux + Windows + GPUs. Unlimited cache + Static IPs + Private networking. More than 600k runners started every week.

Ephemeral self-hosted GitHub Actions runners in your own AWS account. One CloudFormation or Terraform stack, no Kubernetes, any EC2 instance per job.

Ephemeral EC2 runners in your own AWS account: any instance per job, picked by label, gone when the job ends. One CloudFormation stack to deploy, one line to migrate. Then it just runs. A job is queued, an instance boots in your account, the job runs, the instance is terminated. About 30 seconds from queued to running, and nothing waits around in between. If GitHub must not call into your account at all, Fleet runs the same loop pull-based: no inbound webhook, no public endpoint. cheaper than GitHub-hosted runners — you pay AWS directly, no per-minute markup. jobs every day — ephemeral runners launched and destroyed, one box per job. vCPUs daily — from 1 to 896 per runner, across x64 ·…from runs-on.com

Pricing, as stated on its site

Free tier, paid plans from $300/mo — RunsOn offers a freemium model with a 15-day free trial for commercial use and a free tier for non-commercial projects. Commercial plans start at €300/year (approximately $300 USD/year), with volume-b

checked September 2026 · prices change

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