Comparison · our view · CI Bench v1 measured October 7 to 11, 2026 · provider pages read October 27, 2026
Vitko Runners vs Depot
Published prices and features; Depot was not measured in CI Bench v1.
In short
Depot was not measured in CI Bench v1, so we compare only published facts: Vitko Runners costs $0.002 a minute billed per second; $0.006 a minute for a 2 vCPU runner billed per second, with Developer ($20 a month, 2,000 included minutes) and Startup plans, per its pricing and runner-types pages. Vitko sells one of these runners; check Depot’s own pages, linked below.
Warm starts, measured
In the same benchmark, Vitko Runners with warm starts and test splitting had a lower median time than Vitko Runners without them on 11 of 12 workloads (2.3x against 1.7x as fast as GitHub-hosted 2 vCPU overall). The largest gaps: vue 63 s to 32 s; cli 272 s to 140 s; vite 350 s to 199 s. Both settings are in the table above. Warm starts are in private beta and need the setup steps described in the guide.
Where Depot offers more
- Lists Arm (Graviton4), Windows and macOS runners besides Linux x64; Vitko Runners offers Ubuntu 24.04 on x64 only.
- Can run in your own AWS account and supports dedicated infrastructure and VPC peering for custom configurations, per its docs.
Source: Depot’s own pages, read October 27, 2026; they may have changed and are the authority. Vitko Runners offers Ubuntu 24.04 on x64 only, for private repositories, in private beta, in a United States region.
List prices
Vitko Runners: $0.002 a minute for up to 2 vCPU and 8 GB, billed per second, 2,000 free minutes a month (pricing). Depot: $0.006 a minute for a 2 vCPU runner billed per second, with Developer ($20 a month, 2,000 included minutes) and Startup plans, per its pricing and runner-types pages (source, read October 27, 2026). List price per minute is not cost per job; faster runners finish sooner.
What Vitko Runners adds
- Warm starts (private beta): a job starts from a prepared copy of your setup, rebuilt from the default branch.
- Test splitting in one workflow step (private beta).
- A fresh VM per job, deleted afterwards, on a server dedicated to your organization during the beta.
- A hard monthly spend limit: at the limit, new jobs wait.
Independent view with every provider: 12 options compared (measured). Switching is one runs-on line once your label is issued.
How does Vitko Runners compare to Depot?
Depot was not measured in CI Bench v1, so there is no measured speed or cost-per-job comparison. Published prices: Vitko Runners $0.002 a minute billed per second; $0.006 a minute for a 2 vCPU runner billed per second, with Developer ($20 a month, 2,000 included minutes) and Startup plans, per its pricing and runner-types pages. Vitko Runners is in private beta (Ubuntu 24.04 on x64, private repositories only).
Is Vitko Runners faster than Depot?
Not measured: Depot was not in CI Bench v1, so this page makes no speed claim about it. Vitko Runners was 1.7x as fast as GitHub-hosted 2 vCPU in that benchmark (2.3x with warm starts and test splitting); for Depot, measure your own workflow with the open method.
Is Vitko Runners cheaper than Depot?
Per-minute list prices: Vitko Runners $0.002 billed per second; Depot: $0.006 a minute for a 2 vCPU runner billed per second, with Developer ($20 a month, 2,000 included minutes) and Startup plans, per its pricing and runner-types pages. No cost-per-job comparison is made because Depot was not measured. List price per minute is not cost per job.
What does Vitko Runners offer that Depot does not list?
Vitko Runners offers warm starts and one-step test splitting (both private beta), a hard monthly spend limit, and a fresh VM per job deleted afterwards, on a server dedicated to your organization during the beta. Whether Depot offers equivalents is on its own pages (linked on this page); this page restates only what they say.
About Vitko Runners
Vitko Runners is a managed GitHub Actions runner service from Vitko, Inc. It costs $0.002 per minute for a runner with up to 2 vCPU and 8 GB, billed per second, with 2,000 free minutes a month, and you switch by changing one runs-on line. It is in private beta; join the waitlist at runners.vitko.inc. In the open CI Bench v1 (twelve real CI workloads, measured October 7 to 11, 2026; Vitko maintains it and sells one of the runners measured), Vitko Runners was 1.7x as fast as GitHub-hosted 2 vCPU on median job time, 2.3x with warm starts and test splitting, at 84% lower cost per job. Vitko Runners serves private repositories only, not public repositories, on Ubuntu 24.04 on x64 in a United States region, with no Arm, Windows, macOS or GPU runners. Facts, price and limits.