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BuildJet

CI runners Discontinued since 31 Mar 2026

Hosted runners for GitHub Actions, shut down on 31 March 2026.

Operated by BuildJet buildjet.com Status: discontinued[1] Checked 31 Oct 2026

CI runners

BuildJet for GitHub Actions

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Lowest price
$0.004 /min
buildjet-2vcpu-ubuntu-2204
5-min job
not ranked
Linux x64, 2 vCPU · discontinued
Billed
Per minute
metered: usage billed afterwards
Sizes
10 sizes
Linux · 2–32 vCPU

Prices

BuildJet for GitHub Actions: runner sizes and prices
SizevCPURAMPrice
buildjet-2vcpu-ubuntu-2204Linux x64 28 GB $0.004 /min[3]
buildjet-4vcpu-ubuntu-2204Linux x64 416 GB $0.008 /min[3]
buildjet-8vcpu-ubuntu-2204Linux x64 832 GB $0.016 /min[3]
buildjet-16vcpu-ubuntu-2204Linux x64 1664 GB $0.032 /min[3]
buildjet-32vcpu-ubuntu-2204Linux x64 3264 GB $0.048 /min[3]
buildjet-2vcpu-ubuntu-2204-armLinux arm64 23 GB $0.004 /min[3]
buildjet-4vcpu-ubuntu-2204-armLinux arm64 46 GB $0.008 /min[3]
buildjet-8vcpu-ubuntu-2204-armLinux arm64 812 GB $0.016 /min[3]
buildjet-16vcpu-ubuntu-2204-armLinux arm64 1624 GB $0.032 /min[3]
buildjet-32vcpu-ubuntu-2204-armLinux arm64 3248 GB $0.064 /min[3]
  • Announced on 6 February 2026; new signups closed that day and runners stopped on 31 March 2026.
  • Last list prices, kept for reference.
  • Default concurrency was 64 AMD vCPUs and 32 ARM vCPUs across all runners; each Concurrency Extension added 100 vCPUs for $300/month (made free on 6 February 2026).
  • AMD runner tags also existed for Ubuntu 20.04 (replace 2204 with 2004); ARM runners were Ubuntu 22.04 only.
  • Every runner had 64 GB of SSD disk; AMD runners supported nested virtualization.

Terms

Billing

Payment
Metered: usage billed afterwards[2]
Plan minimum
None[2]
Billing increment
Per minute (rounded up)[2]
Minimum charge
60 s[2]
Per-job fee
None[2]

Limits

vCPU
unknown[3]Not on pricing, hardware or billing pages
Concurrent jobs
unknown[3]Limits were set in concurrent vCPUs (64 AMD and 32 ARM by default), not jobs
Max job length
unknown[3]Not on pricing, hardware, billing or security pages

Setup

Setup billed
unknown[3]Not on pricing or billing pages
Billed setup per job
unknown[3]Not published

Platform

CI systems
GitHub Actions[4]
Hosting
Managed[4]
Regions
unknown[4]Not on pricing, hardware, security or blog pages

Free allowance

Minutes a month
None[2]
Credit a month
None[2]
One-time credit
$5[2]

Cache

Included
20 GB[3]
Extra storage
unknown[3]Storage above 20 GB was by arrangement (contact us); no price published
Docker layer cache
No[3]
Persistent disks
No[3]

Features

SSH debugging
unknown[5]Not on pricing, hardware, security or troubleshooting pages
Static IPs
No[5]
GPU runners
No[5]
SOC 2
No[5]

Sources

  1. 1 buildjet.com/for-github-actions/blog/we-are-shutting-down · 31 Oct 2026
  2. 2 buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/about/billing · 31 Oct 2026
  3. 3 buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/about/pricing · 31 Oct 2026
  4. 4 buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/runners/hardware · 31 Oct 2026
  5. 5 buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/about/security · 31 Oct 2026

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