# BuildJet

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

- Operated by: BuildJet
- Status: Discontinued since 31 Mar 2026 [1]
- Website: https://buildjet.com
- Categories: CI runners
- Checked: 31 Oct 2026

## BuildJet for GitHub Actions (CI runners)

- 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)

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

### Setup

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

### Platform

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

### 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 (Storage above 20 GB was by arrangement (contact us); no price published) [3]
- Docker layer cache: No [3]
- Persistent disks: No [3]

### Features

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

### Prices

| Size | OS | Arch | vCPU | RAM | Disk | CPU | Plan | Price | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| buildjet-2vcpu-ubuntu-2204 | Linux | x64 | 2 | 8 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.004 /min [3] | $0.004 |
| buildjet-4vcpu-ubuntu-2204 | Linux | x64 | 4 | 16 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.008 /min [3] | $0.008 |
| buildjet-8vcpu-ubuntu-2204 | Linux | x64 | 8 | 32 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.016 /min [3] | $0.016 |
| buildjet-16vcpu-ubuntu-2204 | Linux | x64 | 16 | 64 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.032 /min [3] | $0.032 |
| buildjet-32vcpu-ubuntu-2204 | Linux | x64 | 32 | 64 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.048 /min [3] | $0.048 |
| buildjet-2vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm | Linux | arm64 | 2 | 3 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.004 /min [3] | $0.004 |
| buildjet-4vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm | Linux | arm64 | 4 | 6 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.008 /min [3] | $0.008 |
| buildjet-8vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm | Linux | arm64 | 8 | 12 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.016 /min [3] | $0.016 |
| buildjet-16vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm | Linux | arm64 | 16 | 24 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.032 /min [3] | $0.032 |
| buildjet-32vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm | Linux | arm64 | 32 | 48 GB | 64 GB | unknown | any | $0.064 /min [3] | $0.064 |

- 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.

## Sources

[1] https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions/blog/we-are-shutting-down (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[2] https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/about/billing (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[3] https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/about/pricing (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[4] https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/runners/hardware (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[5] https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/about/security (checked 31 Oct 2026)