Skipbox compared

Skipbox beside other ways to run GitHub Actions jobs: what each charges and how it runs them.

• Blacksmith alternatives in 2026: per-minute and flat-price GitHub Actions runners

  How Blacksmith bills, and the alternatives grouped by billing model as read on each vendor's own page on November 9, 2026: WarpBuild and Ubicloud per minute, Depot and Namespace per minute past a monthly plan, RunsOn and Actuated on machines you supply, Skipbox flat by the month. Each one's rate, operating systems, free tier and region, what Blacksmith has that Skipbox doesn't, and the GitHub app permissions each asks for.

  Updated November 9, 2026

• GitHub Actions runners compared (November 2026): how they bill, sizes, free minutes and limits

  GitHub's own runners and eight services that run GitHub Actions jobs on their machines or yours, compared from each one's own pages on November 9, 2026: how each bills (per minute, a plan with included minutes, a licence, a rate per server, a flat month), its published Linux rate or price, its free allowance or trial, sizes, Arm, macOS, Windows, GPU, who runs the machines and where. Plus the two that closed, and the jobs Skipbox doesn't fit.

  Updated November 9, 2026

• GitHub larger runners pricing (2026), and a flat monthly price for 4, 8 and 16 vCPU jobs

  GitHub's Linux x64 larger runners cost $0.012 a minute at 4 cores, $0.022 at 8 and $0.042 at 16, rounded up per job, on GitHub Team and Enterprise Cloud only, public repositories included (GitHub Docs, read November 9, 2026). Every size and rate, what a month costs at 10,000 to 100,000 job-minutes, the job-minutes above which Skipbox's flat plans are lower, the memory difference, and what larger runners do that Skipbox doesn't.

  Updated November 9, 2026