# RunsOn

8 Hacker News commenters recommended RunsOn and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for cheaper, fixed-cost self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on your own AWS account. Critics note it is AWS-only and cannot build iOS apps on EC2 Macs.

## Why people recommend it

- Cheaper than GitHub-hosted runners (4 comments): "Pretty great if you want to get off expensive GH actions boxes and do self hosting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618191)) "Better instance choice, much cheaper, and you can setup an AWS budget alert." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473407)) "They also say that they're much cheaper than github" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278811))
- Good for self-hosting GitHub runners (3 comments): "If you want a 'fixed' cost option for GitHub self hosted runners on your AWS I can't recommend https://runs-on.com/ enough." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473511)) "Pretty great if you want to get off expensive GH actions boxes and do self hosting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618191)) "had a few glitches but largely been great for using AWS instances for runners" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936510))
- Better performance and instance choice (3 comments): "Better instance choice, much cheaper, and you can setup an AWS budget alert." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473407)) "Having faster CI compute would reduce a big negative of Rust" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272559)) "self host via runs-on.com for cost and performance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727771))
- Alternative to persistent self-hosted runners (2 comments): "you'll probably hit limits with the persistent self hosted runner approach, and end up with something like runs-on" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444559)) "JIT runners allow a lot of flexibility that we don't find elsewhere." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295306))

## What people warn about

- Glitches and runner cancellations (2 comments): "had a few glitches but largely been great for using AWS instances for runners" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936510)) "even with runs-on it is a bit painful with runner cancellations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297376))

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://runs-on.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "RunsOn", https://hackerapproved.com/p/runson/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).