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Fastest GitHub Actions Runners

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A benchmark of 57 GitHub Actions runner configurations across nine providers, timing three builds and pricing each run. Namespace's 8-vCPU x86 runner finished all three builds in 5m 04s for $0.1444, while RunsOn's 8-vCPU m8a.2xlarge with tmpfs was nearly as fast at $0.0206.

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