# RunsOn

A licensed orchestrator that starts GitHub Actions runners on EC2 in your own AWS account, with a flat annual licence and compute billed by AWS.

- Operated by: Cyril Rohr EIRL
- Status: Active [1]
- Website: https://runs-on.com
- Categories: CI runners
- Checked: 31 Oct 2026

## RunsOn (Flex and Fleet) (CI runners)

- Hosting: Your cloud (compute billed by your cloud provider)
- Entry paid plan: $350 /yr (Starter)
- Per-job fee: None
- CI systems: GitHub Actions

### Plans

- Free non-commercial: Free; OSS, non-profits and personal non-commercial projects, in exchange for a public link to runs-on.com [1]
- Starter: $350 /year; Under 50k jobs a month; 15-day free trial [1]
- Growth: $1,050 /year; Under 200k jobs a month; 15-day free trial [1]
- Scale: $2,100 /year; Under 500k jobs a month; 15-day free trial [1]
- Sponsorship: $4,200 /year; Unlimited jobs, full server and agent source, priority support, Slack Connect [1]

### Billing

- Payment: Monthly plan with included usage [1]
- Plan minimum: unknown (Annual licence only, no monthly price: Starter $350/yr (EUR 300/yr) on the pricing page's USD view) [1]
- Billing increment: Per second [1]
- Minimum charge: unknown (Compute is billed by AWS; RunsOn's pages don't state a minimum per instance) [1]
- Per-job fee: None [1]

### Limits

- vCPU: unknown (Depends on the EC2 instance family you choose; not stated by RunsOn) [2]
- Concurrent jobs: unknown (No RunsOn cap is published; concurrency is bounded by your own AWS EC2 vCPU and spot quotas (rate-limits docs)) [2]
- Max job length: unknown (Not stated on RunsOn pricing or docs pages) [2]

### Setup

- Setup billed: unknown (Compute is billed by AWS; the pricing page says you only pay while a job is running but doesn't say how instance boot time counts) [2]
- Billed setup per job: unknown (Not published) [2]

### Platform

- CI systems: GitHub Actions [3]
- Hosting: Your cloud (BYOC) [3]
- Regions: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3, eu-central-1, ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2 [3]

### Free allowance

- Minutes a month: None [1]
- Credit a month: None [1]
- One-time credit: None [1]

### Cache

- Included: None [4]
- Extra storage: unknown (Cache lives in an S3 bucket in your own AWS account, billed by AWS) [4]
- Docker layer cache: Yes [4]
- Persistent disks: Yes [4]

### Features

- SSH debugging: Yes [5]
- Static IPs: Yes [5]
- GPU runners: Yes [5]
- SOC 2: No [5]

### Prices

| Size | OS | Arch | vCPU | RAM | Disk | CPU | Plan | Price | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

- Licence per company per year, sized by monthly jobs: Starter $350 (under 50k jobs), Growth $1,050 (under 200k), Scale $2,100 (under 500k), Sponsorship $4,200 (unlimited, includes source code). Default prices on the page are EUR 300, 900, 1,800 and 3,600.
- No seat pricing and no per-minute fee; EC2 compute and EBS are billed by AWS at spot or on-demand prices with no RunsOn markup.
- The control plane runs in your AWS account (Fargate, S3 cache bucket) from about $7 a month, billed by AWS.
- Free licence for non-profit, open-source and personal non-commercial projects in exchange for a public link; 15-day free trial on Starter, Growth and Scale.
- Volume tiers aren't enforced; only two consecutive months above a tier move you up, prorated.
- Linux x64 and arm64, Windows Server 2022 and 2025, and NVIDIA and AMD GPU instances; macOS is not supported.
- Sticky disks (EBS snapshots), S3-backed Magic Cache, static egress IPs through NAT gateways, and SSM or SSH access to runners.

## Sources

[1] https://runs-on.com/pricing/ (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[2] https://runs-on.com/docs/control-plane/rate-limits/ (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[3] https://runs-on.com/installation/flex/ (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[4] https://runs-on.com/docs/performance/caching/docker/ (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[5] https://runs-on.com/legal/license/ (checked 31 Oct 2026)