Comparison · our view · CI Bench v1 measured October 7 to 11, 2026 · provider pages read October 27, 2026
Vitko Runners vs WarpBuild
Published prices and features; WarpBuild was not measured in CI Bench v1.
In short
WarpBuild was not measured in CI Bench v1, so we compare only published facts: Vitko Runners costs $0.002 a minute billed per second; $0.004 a minute for Linux x86-64 2 vCPU and 8 GB ($0.008 for 4 vCPU), billed per minute, with bring-your-own-cloud runners at $0.002 a minute, on its pricing page. Vitko sells one of these runners; check WarpBuild’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 WarpBuild offers more
- Lists Linux x86-64 and arm64, Windows x86-64 and macOS (M4 Pro) runners; Vitko Runners offers Ubuntu 24.04 on x64 only.
- Lists bring-your-own-cloud runners for AWS, GCP and Azure, and on enterprise plans warm pools with jobs starting in under 10 seconds, a 99.9% uptime SLA and SOC 2 Type II, per its pricing page.
- Prices add-ons separately: cache storage $0.20 per GB-month, snapshot restore $0.04 per job, Docker builders from $0.06 a minute.
Source: WarpBuild’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). WarpBuild: $0.004 a minute for Linux x86-64 2 vCPU and 8 GB ($0.008 for 4 vCPU), billed per minute, with bring-your-own-cloud runners at $0.002 a minute, on its pricing page (source, read October 27, 2026). WarpBuild was not benchmarked: its terms of service (read 2026-10-24) prohibit using the service to compete with it, and Vitko makes a competing runner service. 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 WarpBuild?
WarpBuild 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; $0.004 a minute for Linux x86-64 2 vCPU and 8 GB ($0.008 for 4 vCPU), billed per minute, with bring-your-own-cloud runners at $0.002 a minute, on its pricing page. Vitko Runners is in private beta (Ubuntu 24.04 on x64, private repositories only).
Is Vitko Runners faster than WarpBuild?
Not measured: WarpBuild 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 WarpBuild, measure your own workflow with the open method.
Is Vitko Runners cheaper than WarpBuild?
Per-minute list prices: Vitko Runners $0.002 billed per second; WarpBuild: $0.004 a minute for Linux x86-64 2 vCPU and 8 GB ($0.008 for 4 vCPU), billed per minute, with bring-your-own-cloud runners at $0.002 a minute, on its pricing page. No cost-per-job comparison is made because WarpBuild was not measured. List price per minute is not cost per job.
What does Vitko Runners offer that WarpBuild 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 WarpBuild 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.