RunnerHut
- Free allowance
- 3,000 Linux minutes a month on the free plan, with unlimited cache, every runner family and full analytics; per-second billing with a one-minute minimum beyond it.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate3,000 Linux minutes a month on the free plan; USD 0.0040 a minute for the 2 vCPU Linux x64 runner, USD 0.0032 for ARM64, USD 0.0900 for an L4 GPU runner; per-second billing with a one-minute minimum, so a 20-second job is billed as a...
- Evidence
- documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-11checked 2026-11-10 (live); stale on 2026-12-11
| Free tier | 3,000 Linux minutes a month on the free plan, with unlimited cache, every runner family and full analytics; per-second billing with a one-minute minimum beyond it. The 2 vCPU Linux x64 runner is USD 0.0040 a minute, the 2 vCPU ARM64 runner USD 0.0032, Windows USD 0.0080, macOS USD 0.0400 and an L4 GPU runner USD 0.0900. unit minutes; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
no concurrency cap, queue charge, cache charge or egress charge is published; the free pool is Linux only and every runner family is available on the paid meter |
| Binding | request-rate 3,000 minutes is the first thing to fail: on a 2 vCPU runner it is 50 hours of wall-clock time a month, and nothing else on the free plan is capped. |
| Identity | email an email address and a GitHub account to connect a repository: the homepage states "No credit card required ยท 3,000 free minutes", and no signup was performed |
| Egress | no egress charge is published: the page says it bills per-second compute with no per-developer fee, no cache charges and no egress surprises |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: a job is bounded by the runner size, and the page prices a 2 vCPU tier and scales linearly with size |
| Retention | not applicable: a job runs and is destroyed; the page publishes no artifact or cache retention window |
| Interface | git a GitHub Actions workflow points its runs-on label at a RunnerHut runner; the homepage calls them drop-in runners and says there is no agent to install |
| Tooling | a one-line change to an existing GitHub Actions workflow; no agent, CLI or self-hosted runner is needed |
| Composes with | GitHub Actions on a public repository stays free and comes first; RunnerHut buys private-repository minutes at USD 0.0040 for 2 vCPU against GitHub list price of USD 0.0060, and the 3,000 free minutes cover a small private pipeline before any card is needed |
| Reliability | the page publishes no job wall clock, no concurrency cap and no queue limit; per-second billing with a one-minute minimum rounds a short job up to a full minute |
| Notes | A hosted GitHub Actions runner with a free pool large enough for a small private pipeline: 3,000 Linux minutes a month, no cache charge and no egress charge. The rates undercut GitHub list price on every family the page lists, and the one-minute minimum is the only rounding. The free pool is Linux only, and the runners are EU-hosted with data residency in six regions. |
| Evidence note | documented The free pool, the five runner rates and the billing granularity are read from the vendor own pricing page, and the no-card and drop-in claims from its homepage. Raise by running one job on the free plan and reading the minute counter and the first invoice line. |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/pricing | the free plan is 3,000 Linux minutes a month with unlimited cache |
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/pricing | prices are per minute for the 2 vCPU tier and scale linearly with size |
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/pricing | cache is unlimited and no retention window is stated |
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/pricing | no egress charge is published |
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/ | a workflow targets the runners by changing one line |
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/ | the runners are drop-in and need no agent |
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/pricing | the 2 vCPU Linux rate is USD 0.0040 a minute against GitHub list price of USD 0.0060 |
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/pricing | part of the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/pricing | the free pool is Linux minutes |
| 2026-11-10 | runnerhut.com/ | no credit card is required for the free minutes |