Ubicloud
Ranked 10 of 10 cloud providers by recommenders
Recommended as cheaper, faster GitHub Actions runners with less queue time; the main caveat is no hard budget caps.
Recommended as cheaper, faster GitHub Actions runners with less queue time; the main caveat is no hard budget caps.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Owned for 6 months
Median of the 3 owners who said how long they have had it.
Each square is one year.
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Cheaper than GitHub's runners
“offer GitHub Actions runners at cheaper prices than GitHub themselves”
Comment from 10 Jun 2026 in “Surprise Pay $1000” “(excellent) Ubicloud prices”
Comment from 22 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Postgres and ClickHouse as a unified data stack” Faster than GitHub's runners
“Also faster than the analog runners github provide.”
Comment from 16 Dec 2025 in “Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions” Less queue time for bursty jobs
“the fact that CI jobs are bursty means it works out not too much costlier but with less queue time”
Comment from 10 Jun 2026 in “Surprise Pay $1000”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
No hard budget caps
“Ubicloud does not have hard budget caps”
Comment from 4 Oct 2026 in “We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything” Cumbersome to use before
“A year and a half ago it was super cumbersome”
Comment from 26 Dec 2025 in “Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH”
Other cloud providers people recommend
The four most recommended other cloud providers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 248 | 498 | 33% | 13 | 5 yrs17 owners | — |
| Google Cloud | 161 | 403 | 29% | 12 | 9 yrs13 owners | — |
| Microsoft Azure | 153 | 608 | 20% | 12 | 8 yrs10 owners | — |
| Scaleway | 70 | 26 | 73% | 12 | — | Approved |
| UbicloudThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 4 | 6 mo3 owners | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Ubicloud does not have hard budget caps”
“the fact that CI jobs are bursty means it works out not too much costlier but with less queue time”
“offer GitHub Actions runners at cheaper prices than GitHub themselves”
“(excellent) Ubicloud prices”
“A year and a half ago it was super cumbersome”
“Also faster than the analog runners github provide.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.