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No subscription, no seats and no platform fee. Put in your minutes to see a month on your hive beside the same month on hosted runners.
100,000 minutes a month on 2 vCPU Linux arm64
$25
On your own Macs, where GitHub-hosted runners would cost $500.
USD estimates at reference speed, for jobs that run on your own organization's machines with the hive paying the organization's wallet.
Monthly cost in USD on 2 vCPU Linux arm64, at list prices and reference speed. The shaded band is the difference between GitHub-hosted and Hive Runner on your own machines.
| Size | Hive Runner | GitHub-hosted | Blacksmith |
|---|---|---|---|
2 vCPU hive | $0.00025 | $0.005 | $0.0025 |
4 vCPU hive-4cpu | $0.0005 | $0.008 | $0.005 |
8 vCPU hive-8cpu | $0.001 | $0.014 | $0.010 |
Hive Runner runs Linux arm64 jobs, so the comparison uses each provider's Linux arm64 list price, checked on October 3, 2026 against GitHub's runner pricing and Blacksmith's pricing page. Free minutes and plan allowances are left out. Hive Runner prices are at reference speed in a hive whose machines are your own.
Your organization pays the full price of each job. Hive Runner keeps 25% of it, which is its only revenue, and the rest goes to the machine that ran the job.
In your hive that machine belongs to your organization. When the hive is set to pay the organization's wallet, the 75% comes straight back and can pay for the next job. The price is what is left: $0.00025 for a 2 vCPU minute.
One compute unit is one vCPU for one minute at reference speed. The reference is one core of a standard GitHub-hosted runner. A compute unit is charged at $0.0005 in your hive, before the machine's share comes back.
Job charge = minutes × vCPUs × speed score × rate per compute unit
Minutes are counted from GitHub's own job start and finish, rounded up to the whole minute. The speed score comes from a benchmark each machine runs when it joins: a machine that does a minute of reference work in half the time has a score of 2. It costs twice as much per minute and finishes the same work in half the minutes. Every job has a signed receipt showing these numbers. Pricing in the docs
Every new organization starts with a grant worth about $5. With a card on file it is $10.
$5 pays for about 20,000 minutes on the 2 vCPU runner on your own machines.
Jobs are paid for with the Hive Runner token. Each job has a price, a payer, a payee and a receipt. This site shows US dollar estimates so the figures can be compared with other runners.