# Sprinters

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
- Status: Active [1]
- Website: https://sprinters.sh
- Categories: CI runners
- Checked: 31 Oct 2026

## Sprinters runners on AWS (CI runners)

- 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 billed: Setup and cleanup time is billed on every job; how long it takes is not published.
- Prepaid: You buy credit up front. Unused credit expires.

### Billing

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

### Limits

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

### Setup

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

### 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 (The offer is 1,000 free jobs in the first 30 days, not a dollar credit) [1]

### Cache

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

### Features

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

### Prices

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

- 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.

## Sources

[1] https://sprinters.sh/pricing (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[2] https://sprinters.sh/terms (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[3] https://sprinters.sh/docs/aws-regions (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[4] https://sprinters.sh/docs (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[5] https://sprinters.sh/docs/security (checked 31 Oct 2026)