CI Bench

Managed · CI Bench v1

Ubicloud

1.1x faster than GitHub's 2 vCPU runner and 83% lower cost per job, averaged over 12 workloads.

Speed
1.1×
faster than GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest)
8th of 9 by speed
Cost per job
−83%
vs GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest)
4th of 9; the same at 1,000 to 100,000 jobs a month
Lowest median time
0 / 12
workloads
none of the workloads
Failed runs
1 of 360
measured runs
vite 1 of 30. Counted, not replaced.

Speed on each workload

× faster than GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest) on the same workload
Burst: 20 jobs at once
1.3×
cli
1.0×
codex-lint
1.3×
container
1.1×
fd
1.1×
flask
0.6×
guava
1.3×
monorepo
1.4×
pydantic
1.1×
ts
1.4×
vite
1.2×
vue
1.1×

Configuration

Managed · 2 vCPU / 8 GB
Measured configuration
Ubicloud standard, 2 vCPU
Size
2 vCPU / 8 GB
Label or setup
ubicloud-standard-2
Price as measured
$0.00125 a minute, each job rounded up to a whole minute; list price on 2026-10-05 (source)
Accelerators used
Transparent cache is on by default (no workflow change).
Definition
providers/ubicloud2.json

Per workload

Green marks the lowest median time on the workload. The burst row covers all 20 jobs.
WorkloadMedian timevs GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest)p95 timeMean costvs GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest)Successful runsRank
Burst: 20 jobs at once203 s1.3x faster271 s$0.06288% lower30 of 308th
cli359 s1.0x faster429 s$0.007880% lower30 of 308th
codex-lint682 s1.3x faster881 s$0.01583% lower30 of 308th
container213 s1.1x faster262 s$0.004782% lower30 of 306th
fd87 s1.1x faster125 s$0.002183% lower30 of 306th
flask36 s1.6x slower46 s$0.001379% lower30 of 307th
guava881 s1.3x faster1086 s$0.01982% lower30 of 306th
monorepo276 s1.4x faster366 s$0.006185% lower30 of 305th
pydantic159 s1.1x faster204 s$0.003781% lower30 of 308th
ts560 s1.4x faster844 s$0.01284% lower30 of 307th
vite502 s1.2x faster594 s$0.01182% lower29 of 308th
vue114 s1.1x faster152 s$0.002781% lower30 of 307th
Slower than GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest)
flask (1.6x slower)
Burst queue, p95
127 s, against 31 s for GitHub-hosted (ubuntu-latest)
Indexes and 95% intervals
Time index
0.879 (95% interval 0.847 to 0.921)
Cost index
0.173 (0.167 to 0.180) at 100,000 jobs a month

Compare with…

Head-to-head pages: speed, cost, failures and each workload