RunsOn: 10x cheaper GitHub Action runners.

On-demand, self-hosted runners, for your GitHub Action workflows.

Any size, at the cheapest price available.

Runs in your own AWS account.

Quick overview:

• Each workflow job triggers a fresh new runner (i.e. ephemeral).
• Access to all Linux runner types available on AWS. Even bare-metal.
• Supports x64 and arm64 images. You can even bring your own AMIs!
• 1-1 workflow compatibility with official GitHub runners.
• Scales with your needs: you can launch as many workflows in parallel as needed. No concurrency limit.
• SSH access into the runners if needed.
• 🆕 in v1.6.1: local S3 cache for greater speed with runs-on/cache action, and UNLIMITED cache sizes.
• 🆕 in v2.1.0: much better concurrency control, thanks to the switch to a more efficient runner pooling algorithm.

- runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+ runs-on: runs-on,runner=16cpu-linux-x64

Prices

At least 2x cheaper than SaaS offerings, up to 10x cheaper than GitHub hosted runners. And the largest choice of configs ever. All in infrastructure that you control.

The crazy thing is that even if you use larger instance types (e.g. 16cpu) for your workflows, it might actually be cheaper than using a 2cpu instance since your workflow should finish much more quickly (assuming you can take advantage of the higher core number).

→ Use the GitHub Action pricing calculator to get an idea of the savings.

Documentation

→ Read the RunsOn docs for all the details.

License

This software is licensed under the Prosperity Public License 3.0.0. In practice:

• Free to use if you are a non-profit or for personal use.

• For commercial organizations, you can evaluate for free for 15 days, after which you must buy a license.

Starting with v2.1, only the cloudformation template and the base AMIs are public. With a Sponsorship license, you get access to the source code.

RunsOn has an insane ROI for commercial organizations. Monthly license cost is usually recouped within a few days at most.

→ Learn more about licensing.

Author

This software is built by Cyril Rohr - Twitter/X.

If you like DevOps tooling, you might also be interested in my other projects PullPreview.com and Packager.io.