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Price

Ubicloud runners provide a number of price-performance advantages over GitHub runners. These include:
  • Prices are 7x cheaper than GitHub Actions
  • Ubicloud Runners outperform GitHub Runners even at this price point
  • Ubicloud cloud services are open source under the AGPL v3 license, if you choose to manage your infrastructure yourself
We charge only for usage and at per minute granularity. Every account gets a $2/month credit that’s equivalent to 1,250 minutes of Ubicloud (2 vCPU) runner time. You can read more about our Linux x64 and arm64 prices in the general pricing page.

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Performance

In addition to being 7x more cost-effective, Ubicloud runners are also faster. This is because Ubicloud VMs run on newer hardware than those of GitHub’s Azure VMs. Below is a sample of run times across open source projects for GitHub and Ubicloud runners. We also display Ubicloud 4 vCore runner times. Since Ubicloud comes with a significant price advantage, we recommend trying more powerful runners for faster builds.
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Repo source: https://github.com/facebook/folly (C++ Build and Test)
Run date: 2025-01-07
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Repo source: https://github.com/google/xls (Bazel Test)
Run date: 2025-01-07
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Repo source: https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb (Docker Build)
Run date: 2025-01-07
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Repo source: https://github.com/supabase/supabase (Check code with Typescript)
Run date: 2025-01-07
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Repo source: https://github.com/nasa/astrobee (C++ Build and Test)
Run date: 2025-01-07

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Why Faster Builds Matter

Build and test jobs don’t just consume compute, they block developer time. When a developer pushes code and waits 15–20 minutes for CI to complete, that’s time spent:
  • Waiting to merge a pull request
  • Context-switching to other work
  • Losing momentum on the task at hand
Now multiply that across an engineering team. Even saving 3–5 minutes per job adds up to:
  • Dozens of hours per week in recovered dev time
  • Fewer PRs left idle due to slow feedback
  • Faster iteration on features and bug fixes
  • Higher team velocity, fewer productivity stalls
Example: If your team runs 1,000 jobs/week and Ubicloud runners cut job time by 4 minutes on average, that’s over 66 hours of developer time saved every month.
Ubicloud runners aren’t just about faster CI, they’re about giving your engineers back their time so they can build, ship, and move faster.