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Sprinters

CI runners

A GitHub App that starts ephemeral GitHub Actions runners on EC2 in your own AWS account, for $0.01 per job on private repositories with compute billed by AWS.

Operated by InfrastructureX GmbH sprinters.sh Status: active[1] Checked 31 Oct 2026

CI runners

Sprinters runners on AWS

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Hosting
Your cloud
compute billed by your cloud provider
Entry paid plan
None
0 plans listed
Per-job fee
$0.01
CI systems
GitHub Actions

What to know

  • Setup billedSetup and cleanup time is billed on every job; how long it takes is not published.
  • PrepaidYou buy credit up front. Unused credit expires.

Prices

No per-minute sizes: runners start in your own cloud account, so compute is billed by your cloud provider.

  • Free for public repositories; $0.01 per job for private repositories, for any number of vCPUs, build minutes and concurrent jobs.
  • 1,000 free jobs in the first 30 days.
  • Jobs whose runner fails to launch, or that error or are cancelled before launch, are not charged.
  • EC2 compute, EBS storage and bandwidth are billed by AWS in your account, on-demand or spot; reserved instances apply.
  • 612 EC2 instance types (m, c, r and t families; Intel, AMD and Graviton), 1 to 384 vCPUs, 0.5 to 3,072 GiB RAM, 1 to 65,536 GiB temp disk.
  • Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 images in full, slim and minimal variants, x64 and arm64; no Windows or macOS.
  • Default runner is a t3.large (2 vCPU, 8 GiB) in us-east-1 with 10 GiB temp disk.

Terms

Billing

Payment
Prepaid credit[2]
Plan minimum
None[2]
Billing increment
unknown[2]Sprinters charges per job, not per unit of time; EC2 time is billed by AWS to your account
Minimum charge
unknown[2]Sprinters charges per job; AWS billing minimums are not stated on Sprinters' pages
Per-job fee
$0.01 per job[2]
Credit expires
Yes[2]
Credit refundable
No[2]

Limits

vCPU
unknown[1]Depends on the EC2 instance type you choose (m, c, r and burstable t families)
Concurrent jobs
Unlimited[1]
Max job length
unknown[1]Pricing page says "Any number of build minutes per job"; no cap is published

Setup

Setup billed
Yes[1]
Billed setup per job
unknown[1]Boot time depends on the image (10-55 s on the images page) and is billed by AWS, not Sprinters

Platform

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

Free allowance

Minutes a month
None[1]
Credit a month
None[1]
One-time credit
unknown[1]The offer is 1,000 free jobs in the first 30 days, not a dollar credit

Cache

Included
None[4]
Extra storage
unknown[4]Sprinters has no cache product on its pricing or docs pages
Docker layer cache
No[4]
Persistent disks
No[4]

Features

SSH debugging
No[5]
Static IPs
unknown[5]You choose the VPC subnet, but no static egress IP setup is described on Sprinters' pages
GPU runners
No[5]
SOC 2
unknown[5]The security page doesn't mention SOC 2

Sources

  1. 1 sprinters.sh/pricing · 31 Oct 2026
  2. 2 sprinters.sh/terms · 31 Oct 2026
  3. 3 sprinters.sh/docs/aws-regions · 31 Oct 2026
  4. 4 sprinters.sh/docs · 31 Oct 2026
  5. 5 sprinters.sh/docs/security · 31 Oct 2026

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