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 Google Cloud had the lowest median time of the two on 12 of 12 workloads, GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest) on 0.| Workload | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud | GitHub-hosted runners (ubuntu-latest, 2 vCPU) | Lowest median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burst: 20 jobs at once | 153 s | 259 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| cli | 310 s | 368 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| codex-lint | 581 s | 884 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| container | 178 s | 239 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| fd | 64 s | 92 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| flask | 11 s | 23 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| guava | 820 s | 1167 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| monorepo | 278 s | 384 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| pydantic | 119 s | 179 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| ts | 533 s | 784 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| vite | 401 s | 603 s | Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud |
| vue | 76 s | 121 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 Google Cloud | GitHub-hosted runners (ubuntu-latest, 2 vCPU) |
|---|---|---|
| 100,000 jobs a month | $0.409 | $1.000 |
| 10,000 jobs a month | $0.409 | $1.000 |
| 1,000 jobs a month | $0.409 | $1.000 |
Failed runs
Counted, never replaced- Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud
- 1 of 360 measured runs (0.3%)
- GitHub-hosted runners (ubuntu-latest, 2 vCPU)
- 3 of 360 measured runs (0.8%)
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 1.5× faster than GitHub-hosted runners (ubuntu-latest, 2 vCPU) (95% interval 1.4× to 1.5×); Self-hosted runners on Google Cloud cost 59% less per job (at 100,000 jobs a month).