Self-hosted options spread fixed monthly costs over the monthly volume, so their cost per job changes with it; see the volume table.
Speed
× faster than GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest) · higher is betterCost per job
USD per $1.00 spent on GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest), at 100,000 jobs a month · lower is betterWorkload by workload
Self-hosted runners on AWS had the lowest median time of the two on 3 of 12 workloads, Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud on 9.| Workload | Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud | Lowest median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burst: 20 jobs at once | 161 s | 153 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| cli | 357 s | 310 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| codex-lint | 512 s | 581 s | Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) |
| container | 247 s | 178 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| fd | 114 s | 64 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| flask | 70 s | 11 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| guava | 717 s | 820 s | Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) |
| monorepo | 281 s | 278 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| pydantic | 154 s | 119 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| ts | 433 s | 533 s | Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) |
| vite | 403 s | 401 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| vue | 117 s | 76 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
Cost by volume
Mean cost per job in USD, from the benchmark’s sensitivity results| Volume | Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| 100,000 jobs a month | $0.383 | $0.409 |
| 10,000 jobs a month | $0.395 | $0.409 |
| 1,000 jobs a month | $0.508 | $0.409 |
Failed runs
Counted, never replaced- Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job)
- 0 of 360 measured runs (0.0%)
- Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud
- 1 of 360 measured runs (0.3%)
Each configuration page lists where its failures happened. All losses.
All results for this pair
One line per configuration pairing, generated from the benchmark data- Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud ran jobs 1.3× faster than Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) (95% interval 1.3× to 1.4×); no clear difference in cost per job (at 100,000 jobs a month).