# Coreload and GitHub-hosted runners
The section "What GitHub publishes" quotes GitHub's own pages, with a link to each page and the date we read it. The
other sections are ours.

## Measured

Not yet measured. We publish a speed comparison only after we have run one, with the machine size on each side named.

## Coreload's price

Coreload's per-minute price, published on the pricing page. (coming soon) See [Pricing](https://coreload.com/pricing/) and
[Sizes](https://coreload.com/sizes/).

## What GitHub publishes

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Quoted from GitHub's own pages, read 2026-11-03 (US Eastern), each with a link to its page. Where a page we read says nothing on a point, we say so.

| Machine | Rate ("Per-minute rate (USD)") | Their words | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 vCPU · 8 GB | $0.006 | "Linux 2-core (x64) actions\_linux $0.006" · "Linux 2 8 GB 14 GB x64 ubuntu-latest" | [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing) · [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/runners/github-hosted-runners) |
| 4 vCPU · 16 GB | $0.012 | "Linux 4-core linux\_4\_core $0.012" · "4 16 GB 150 GB x64, arm64 Ubuntu" | [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing) · [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/runners/larger-runners) |
| 8 vCPU · 32 GB | $0.022 | "Linux 8-core linux\_8\_core $0.022" · "8 32 GB 300 GB x64, arm64 Ubuntu" | [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing) · [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/runners/larger-runners) |
| 16 vCPU · 64 GB | $0.042 | "linux\_16\_core $0.042" · "16 64 GB 600 GB x64, arm64 Ubuntu" | [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing) · [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/runners/larger-runners) |
| 32 vCPU · 128 GB | $0.082 | "linux\_32\_core $0.082" · "32 128 GB 1200 GB x64, arm64 Ubuntu" | [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing) · [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/runners/larger-runners) |
| 64 vCPU · 256 GB | $0.162 | "Linux 64-core linux\_64\_core $0.162" · "64 256 GB 2040 GB x64 Ubuntu" | [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing) · [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/runners/larger-runners) |
| 96 vCPU · 384 GB | $0.252 | "Linux 96-core linux\_96\_core $0.252" · "96 384 GB 2040 GB x64 Ubuntu" | [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing) · [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/runners/larger-runners) |

The rate, in their words: "Per-minute rate (USD)" (source: [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing))

- **Billing granularity:** "GitHub rounds the minutes and partial minutes each job uses up to the nearest whole minute." (source: [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing))

- **Free tier:** "expressed as a monetary amount, not a fixed number of minutes" · "The following usage remains free independently and does not reduce the included compute usage: Standard GitHub-hosted runners in public repositories." (source: [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-actions))

- **CPU:** Not stated on [this docs.github.com page](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/runners/github-hosted-runners) when we read it.

- **Regions:** Not stated on [this docs.github.com page](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing) when we read it.

- **Caching:** "Artifact and cache storage have separate allowances" (source: [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-actions))

- **Isolation:** "each GitHub-hosted runner is a new virtual machine (VM) hosted by GitHub" · "Single-CPU runners are hosted in a container on a shared VM" (source: [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/github-hosted-runners))

- **OS images:** "ubuntu-latest , ubuntu-24.04 , ubuntu-22.04 , ubuntu-26.04" · "Linux 1 5 GB 14 GB x64 ubuntu-slim" (source: [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/runners/github-hosted-runners))

- **Limits:** "their cost can draw from the included compute usage for billing accounts on GitHub Team and GitHub Enterprise Cloud" · "Larger runners are billed for public repositories." (source: [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-actions))
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