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List prices · read 2026-10-27 · Updated October 29, 2026

GitHub Actions runner price per minute: 8 vCPU and 16 vCPU

What each provider's own pricing page says for larger Linux x64 runners, lowest first.

Short answer

Among providers that publish an 8 vCPU Linux x64 rate (read 2026-10-27), the lowest list price per minute is Ubicloud at $0.005, then Ubicloud (premium) $0.008, Sengi $0.012, WarpBuild $0.016; GitHub-hosted 8-core is $0.022. For 16 vCPU the lowest is WarpBuild at $0.032; GitHub-hosted 16-core is $0.042. Vitko Runners offers one size, up to 2 vCPU and 8 GB. Rates are not measured costs per job. Maintained by Vitko, Inc., which sells one of the products measured.

8 vCPU Linux x64

8 vCPU list prices
ProviderSize or label$ per minuteBillingSource
Ubicloudubicloud-standard-8$0.005Per minute, billed monthlysource, read 2026-10-27
Ubicloud (premium)ubicloud-premium-8$0.008Per minute, billed monthlysource, read 2026-10-27
SengiLinux 8 vCPU 32 GB$0.012Per minute of each jobsource, read 2026-10-27
WarpBuildLinux x86-64 8 vCPU$0.016Per minutesource, read 2026-10-27
GitHub-hostedLinux 8-core$0.022Per minute, each job rounded up to a whole minutesource, read 2026-10-27
Depotdepot-ubuntu-24.04-8$0.024Per secondsource, read 2026-10-27

16 vCPU Linux x64

16 vCPU list prices
ProviderSize or label$ per minuteBillingSource
WarpBuildLinux x86-64 16 vCPU$0.032Per minutesource, read 2026-10-27
GitHub-hostedLinux 16-core$0.042Per minute, each job rounded up to a whole minutesource, read 2026-10-27
Depotdepot-ubuntu-24.04-16$0.048Per secondsource, read 2026-10-27

Providers not listed did not state a rate for that size on the page read. 2 and 4 vCPU: price per minute, 2 and 4 vCPU; JSON and CSV: price list. List price per minute is not cost per job; faster runners finish sooner.

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Prices change often; each row links to the page it was read from. Method: how the runs were made; data: results.json; every raw record: the repository. Maintained by Vitko, Inc., which sells one of the products measured. Page dated October 29, 2026.