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
Vitko Runners had the lowest median time of the two on 12 of 12 workloads, Self-hosted runners on AWS on 0.| Workload | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) | Vitko Runners | Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) | Lowest median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burst: 20 jobs at once | 131 s | 160 s | 161 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| cli | 140 s | 272 s | 357 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| codex-lint | 405 s | 404 s | 512 s | Vitko Runners |
| container | 178 s | 179 s | 247 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| fd | 45 s | 49 s | 114 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| flask | 13 s | 16 s | 70 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| guava | 651 s | 655 s | 717 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| monorepo | 172 s | 180 s | 281 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| pydantic | 69 s | 105 s | 154 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| ts | 243 s | 372 s | 433 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| vite | 199 s | 350 s | 403 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
| vue | 32 s | 63 s | 117 s | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) |
Cost by volume
Mean cost per job in USD, from the benchmark’s sensitivity results| Volume | Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) | Vitko Runners | Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100,000 jobs a month | $0.158 | $0.157 | $0.383 |
| 10,000 jobs a month | $0.158 | $0.157 | $0.395 |
| 1,000 jobs a month | $0.158 | $0.157 | $0.508 |
Failed runs
Counted, never replaced- Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting)
- 3 of 360 measured runs (0.8%)
- Vitko Runners
- 0 of 360 measured runs (0.0%)
- Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job)
- 0 of 360 measured runs (0.0%)
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- Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) ran jobs 2.0× faster than Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) (95% interval 1.9× to 2.2×); Vitko Runners (warm starts + test splitting) cost 59% less per job (at 100,000 jobs a month).
- Vitko Runners ran jobs 1.5× faster than Self-hosted runners on AWS (one VM per job) (95% interval 1.4× to 1.6×); Vitko Runners cost 59% less per job (at 100,000 jobs a month).