RunsOn
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I can’t imagine using GitHub’s terribly slow runners after migrating.”
“Pretty great if you want to get off expensive GH actions boxes”
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“I can't recommend https://runs-on.com/ enough.”
“there are a couple and have very good reputation - though I've never used them”
“My team has been using https://runs-on.com/ for AWS instance runners, had a few glitches but largely been great”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“For the record I maintain the Runs-on”
“For alternatives, I maintain a benchmark at https://runs-on.com/benchmarks/github-actions-cpu-performance/”
I did something very similar. Create/start/stop/terminate EC2. https://github.com/redoapp/fast-actions-runner-ec2
“I am developing a self-hosted solution for this [1]”
Threads where it came up
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- One year of Dioxus fullstack in production: the good, the painful 1 mention
- Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box 1 mention
- Surprise Pay $1000 1 mention
- GitHub Actions down again today 1 mention
- Yet Another GitHub Incident 1 mention
Also written as runs-on, Runs-on. Data: runson.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“I can’t imagine using GitHub’s terribly slow runners after migrating.”
“Pretty great if you want to get off expensive GH actions boxes”
“I can't recommend https://runs-on.com/ enough.”
“there are a couple and have very good reputation - though I've never used them”
“they already charge 10x what others charge”
“My team has been using https://runs-on.com/ for AWS instance runners, had a few glitches but largely been great”
“you can have a look at https://github.com/runs-on/runs-on”