# Tenki

Bare-metal Linux x64 and Apple Silicon macOS runners for GitHub Actions, billed per second from a workspace credit balance.

- Operated by: Tenki Cloud, LLC (subsidiary of Luxor Technology Corporation)
- Status: Active [1]
- Website: https://tenki.cloud
- Categories: CI runners
- Checked: 31 Oct 2026

## Tenki Runners (CI runners)

- Lowest price: $0.004 /min (tenki-standard-small-2c-4g)
- 5-min job: $0.02 (Linux x64, 2 vCPU · rank 9 of 15)
- Billed: Per second (prepaid credit)
- Sizes: 8 sizes (Linux, macOS · 2–16 vCPU)

What to know:

- Prepaid: You buy credit up front. Unused credit does not expire.
- Max 5 jobs: At most 5 jobs run at the same time.

### Plans

- Starter: Free; $100 one-time credit, 5 concurrent sessions, 100 GiB storage, machines up to 4 vCPU / 8 GB [1]
- Team: $250 /month; $200/month billed yearly ($2,400 a year); $100 usage credit a month, 100 concurrent sessions, 1,000 GiB storage, machines up to 16 vCPU, 4 concurrent macOS jobs [8]
- Enterprise: unknown (Not published; contact hello@tenki.cloud); Discounted rates, higher concurrency, larger machines, more storage [1]

### Billing

- Payment: Prepaid credit [1]
- Plan minimum: None [1]
- Billing increment: Per second [1]
- Minimum charge: None [1]
- Per-job fee: None [1]
- Credit expires: No [1]
- Credit refundable: No [1]

### Limits

- vCPU: unknown (Docs say two vCPUs map to one physical core on bare metal and each VM is single-tenant; the word dedicated is not used) [2]
- Concurrent jobs: 5 [2]
- Max job length: 6 h [2]

### Setup

- Setup billed: No [2]
- Billed setup per job: 0 s [2]

### Platform

- CI systems: GitHub Actions [4]
- Hosting: Managed [4]
- Regions: unknown (Docs mention jobs run in a region but list none; security page names SOC 2 and ISO 27001 data centers without locations) [4]

### Free allowance

- Minutes a month: None [5]
- Credit a month: None [5]
- One-time credit: $100 [5]

### Cache

- Included: None [6]
- Extra storage: $0.2 per GB-month [6]
- Docker layer cache: No [6]
- Persistent disks: Yes [6]

### Features

- SSH debugging: unknown (SSH is documented for Tenki Sandbox only; runner docs do not mention SSH into jobs) [7]
- Static IPs: Yes [7]
- GPU runners: No [7]
- SOC 2: Yes [7]

### Prices

| Size | OS | Arch | vCPU | RAM | Disk | CPU | Plan | Price | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tenki-standard-small-2c-4g | Linux | x64 | 2 | 4 GB | 86 GB | 5th Gen AMD Ryzen | any | $0.004 /min [3] | $0.004 |
| tenki-standard-medium-4c-8g | Linux | x64 | 4 | 8 GB | 150 GB | 5th Gen AMD Ryzen | any | $0.008 /min [3] | $0.008 |
| tenki-standard-large-8c-16g | Linux | x64 | 8 | 16 GB | 200 GB | 5th Gen AMD Ryzen | Team | $0.016 /min [3] | $0.016 |
| tenki-standard-large-plus-16c-32g | Linux | x64 | 16 | 32 GB | 300 GB | 5th Gen AMD Ryzen | Team | $0.032 /min [3] | $0.032 |
| tenki-macos-26-mini | macOS | arm64 | 2 | 4 GB | 140 GB | Apple M4 Pro | any | $0.04 /min [3] | $0.04 |
| tenki-macos-26-small | macOS | arm64 | 4 | 8 GB | 140 GB | Apple M4 Pro | any | $0.08 /min [3] | $0.08 |
| tenki-macos-26-medium | macOS | arm64 | 6 | 16 GB | 140 GB | Apple M4 Pro | Team | $0.12 /min [3] | $0.12 |
| tenki-macos-26-large | macOS | arm64 | 8 | 32 GB | 140 GB | Apple M4 Pro | Team | $0.16 /min [3] | $0.16 |

- Starter (free plan): pay as you go from a prepaid balance, up to 5 concurrent sessions and machines up to 4 vCPU / 8 GB (2 vCPU / 4 GB until a payment method is on file).
- Team: $250 a month, or $200 a month billed yearly, with $100 of usage credit each month (no rollover), 100 concurrent sessions, larger sizes and 4 concurrent macOS jobs.
- Published rates: x64 $0.002 per vCPU-minute, macOS $0.020 per vCPU-minute. Larger x64 sizes and custom images on request.
- macOS sizes also come with macOS 15 Sequoia images (tenki-macos-15-mini/small/medium/large) at the same sizes.
- Sticky disks are in beta. A dedicated egress IP costs $100 per IP per month.
- SOC 2 Type II is held by parent company Luxor Technology; the report is available under NDA.

## Sources

[1] https://tenki.cloud/pricing (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[2] https://tenki.cloud/docs/runners/limits-and-concurrency (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[3] https://tenki.cloud/products/runners (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[4] https://tenki.cloud/docs/runners/sticky-disks (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[5] https://tenki.cloud/docs/account/free-credits (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[6] https://tenki.cloud/docs/runners/caching (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[7] https://tenki.cloud/docs/runners/networking (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[8] https://tenki.cloud/docs/pricing (checked 31 Oct 2026)