{"slug": "show-hn-jog-github-runners-for-80-less", "title": "Show HN: Jog – GitHub runners for 80% less", "summary": "Jog launched a GitHub Actions runner service that it says costs 80% less than GitHub's hosted runners and 70% less than Blacksmith and WarpBuild, with 1,000 CI minutes priced at $1.20 versus $6 on GitHub. Jog runs jobs on self-operated hardware, giving each job a fresh VM, and requires only a change to the runs-on line in existing workflows; jobs run on Ubuntu 24.04 with GitHub's runner tools minus a few large ones. The service targets agent-scale development with Claude Code, Codex, Pi or OpenCode, offers 5,000 free minutes per month while a customer holds credits, and makes unused credits refundable at any time.", "body_md": "# GitHub runners for agent-scale development.\n\nChange one line and pay 80% less.\n\n[Get started on GitHub](https://usejog.com/auth/github/login?next=/account)\n\nGet started with your agent: Claude Code, Codex, Pi or OpenCode\n\n## We’ve felt your pain.\n\nAt our last company, CI cost us over $50K a month.\n\n## 80% less than GitHub. 70% less than Blacksmith and WarpBuild.\n\n1,000 minutes: $6 on GitHub, $1.20 on Jog.\n\n5,000 free minutes every month\n\nWhile you have credits.\n\n## Questions\n\n- Do I change anything else?\n- Not in your workflows, beyond runs-on. Jobs run on Ubuntu 24.04 with GitHub's runner tools, less a few large ones; a job that uses one needs a step that installs it.\n- Which sizes can I use?\n- Any of these. Coming from a larger GitHub runner? Use the size with the same vCPUs.runs-on vCPU RAM Per minute jog 2 8 GB $0.0012 jog-4vcpu 4 16 GB $0.0024 jog-8vcpu 8 32 GB $0.0044 jog-16vcpu 16 64 GB $0.0088 jog-32vcpu 32 128 GB $0.0176\n- Where do my jobs run?\n- On hardware we run ourselves: every job gets a fresh VM sized to it.\n- Does it work with personal GitHub accounts?\n- Yes. Add your own GitHub account, and Jog runs its private repositories the same way it runs an organization’s.\n- Are there free minutes?\n- Yes: 5,000 a month while you have credits, used first. Bigger machines use them faster.\n  - 2 vCPU **1×**\n  - 4 vCPU **2×**\n  - 8 vCPU **4×**\n  - 16 vCPU **8×**\n  - 32 vCPU **16×**\n- 2 vCPU \n- Can I get my credits back?\n- Yes. Unused credits are refundable at any time. Free minutes aren’t.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-jog-github-runners-for-80-less", "canonical_source": "https://usejog.com/", "published_at": "2026-10-27 18:51:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-27 19:12:05.763770+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Jog", "GitHub", "Blacksmith", "WarpBuild", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Pi", "OpenCode"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-jog-github-runners-for-80-less", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-jog-github-runners-for-80-less.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-jog-github-runners-for-80-less.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-jog-github-runners-for-80-less.jsonld"}}