# Coreload and Depot
The section "What Depot publishes" quotes Depot'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 Depot publishes

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Quoted from Depot'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 price") | Their words | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 vCPU · 8 GB | $0.006 | "depot-ubuntu-24.04 2 8 GB 100 GB 2GB $0.006" | [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types) |
| 4 vCPU · 16 GB | $0.012 | "depot-ubuntu-24.04-4 4 16 GB 130 GB 4GB $0.012" | [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types) |
| 8 vCPU · 32 GB | $0.024 | "depot-ubuntu-24.04-8 8 32 GB 150 GB 8GB $0.024" | [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types) |
| 16 vCPU · 64 GB | $0.048 | "depot-ubuntu-24.04-16 16 64 GB 180 GB 8GB $0.048" | [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types) |
| 32 vCPU · 128 GB | $0.096 | "depot-ubuntu-24.04-32 32 128 GB 200 GB 16GB $0.096" | [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types) |
| 64 vCPU · 256 GB | $0.192 | "depot-ubuntu-24.04-64 64 256 GB 250 GB 32GB $0.192" | [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types) |

The rate, in their words: "Per-minute price" (source: [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types))

- **Plan fee:** "Developer $20 per month" · "2,000 GitHub Actions minutes" · "Startup Most popular $200 per month" · "20,000 GitHub Actions minutes" (source: [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/pricing))

- **Billing granularity:** "pay per second for what you use" (source: [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/pricing))

- **Free tier:** "START A 7-DAY TRIAL" (source: [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/pricing))

- **CPU:** "Intel runners use AMD EC2 instances" (source: [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types))

- **Regions:** Not stated on [this depot.dev page](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types) when we read it.

- **Isolation:** "launches ephemeral, single-tenant EC2 instances" · "ephemeral EC2 instances that are never reused" (source: [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/overview))

- **OS images:** "depot-ubuntu-24.04" (source: [depot.dev](https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types))
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