CI Bench

Pricing comparison · list prices read 2026-10-24

Depot vs Vitko Runners

List price per minute: $0.006 for Depot against $0.002 for Vitko Runners. List price per minute is not cost per job; faster runners finish sooner.

Status

Not measured in v1: setup did not complete. Planned for v2.

List price comparison

List prices read on 2026-10-24 from each provider's own pricing page. List price per minute is not cost per job; faster runners finish sooner.
ProviderList price per minuteBilling granularityIncluded minutesMonthly or plan feesBasisSource
Depot not measured$0.006Per second2,000 GitHub Actions minutes a month on the Developer plan; 20,000 on StartupDeveloper plan $20 a month; Startup plan $200 a monthPer runner size (2 vCPU 8 GB; larger sizes use a minutes multiplier)2026-10-24source · more
Provider list price
$0.006 (list price, read 2026-10-24)
Vitko Runners list price
$0.002 per minute, billed per second (list price, read 2026-10-24)
List price per minute
Vitko Runners' list price per minute is 67% lower than Depot's.
Billing
Depot: per second. Vitko Runners: per second, no per-job minimum.
Included minutes and plan fees
Depot: 2,000 GitHub Actions minutes a month on the Developer plan; 20,000 on Startup; developer plan $20 a month; Startup plan $200 a month. Vitko Runners: 2,000 minutes every month; none.

What was measured

Measured results are labeled as measured
Measured, against GitHub
In CI Bench v1, Vitko Runners with warm starts and test splitting was 2.3× faster than GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest), and Vitko Runners had the lowest cost per job among the managed runners measured, 84% lower than GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest). These are measured results against GitHub, not against Depot.
Measured, against Depot
Not measured in v1: setup did not complete. Planned for v2. There is no measured comparison.

Maintained by Vitko, Inc., which sells one of the products measured. Method · Depot status page