Alternatives
Alternatives to every way of running GitHub Actions
Pick what you run today. Its page lists every other option with the vendor's own list price and the day we checked it, cheapest first, with staying put on the list. Buildhound has no referral agreement with any of them.
At 5,000 minutes a month, the cheapest macOS option is one machine you already have on Buildhound Team at $24 and the cheapest Linux option is Ubicloud at $6.25. Staying with GitHub-hosted runners costs $310 for macOS and $30 for Linux.
Every option against GitHub-hostedHosted runners
Someone else's machines.
- Alternatives to GitHub-hosted runnersGitHub's own machines, billed by the minute$0.062 a macOS minute
- Alternatives to BlacksmithHosted runners on bare metal, by the minute$0.08 a macOS minute
- Alternatives to DepotHosted runners on AWS, sold in monthly plans$20 a month for 2,000 minutes
- Alternatives to WarpBuildHosted runners by the minute, or in your cloud$0.004 a Linux minute
- Alternatives to NamespaceHosted runners by the minute or a monthly plan$0.06 a macOS minute, pay as you go
- Alternatives to UbicloudLow-cost hosted Linux runners, by the minute$0.00125 a Linux minute
- Alternatives to Vercel DaemonsRunner containers on Vercel, in public betaNo price published in the beta
Runners in your own cloud
Your cloud account's machines, plus a licence or a platform fee.
macOS only
Apple's own CI, and Macs rented by the month.
Your own machines
Other ways to run jobs on hardware you have.
Put the machines you already have to work.
A spare Mac, a Linux box, or the laptop you code on while it is plugged in and not in use. One prompt into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor: Linux jobs run within minutes, macOS jobs once the Mac has built its image.
- The Buildhound agent holds no GitHub credential
- A fresh VM per job, off your network
- Your agent prepares, you approve
- How security works