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Free allowance
A free licence for non-commercial, open-source and non-profit use in exchange for a public link back; commercial licences run from EUR 300 to EUR 1,800 a year, and the AWS instances bill for a user at spot prices with no markup
Verdict
self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
Cost
not stated
Identity
email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit
write-gatedthe free licence requires non-commercial, open-source or non-profit use and a public link back to runs-on.com
Evidence
documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness
stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
Free tiera free licence for non-commercial, open-source and non-profit use in exchange for a public link back; commercial licences run from EUR 300 to EUR 1,800 a year, and the AWS instances bill for a user at spot prices with no markup
unit none; metered on none
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • write-gated (binding) the free licence requires non-commercial, open-source or non-profit use and a public link back to runs-on.com source
  • request-rate commercial licences are sized by jobs a month: under 50k at EUR 300 a year, to under 500k at EUR 1,800 source
  • per-object-cap instances bill to a user's own AWS account at spot prices with no markup source
not stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Egressnot published by RunsOn: https://runs-on.com/pricing/ read 2026-11-04 states the control plane, S3 cache bucket and data transfer run in the user's AWS region and bill to the user's AWS account, with no egress to a third party
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Interfaceunknown
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence notedocumented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the free licence's terms and the commercial ladder. The compute is a user's own AWS bill, so the free half is a licence rather than capacity, and the licence has a condition
Evidence 3
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02runs-on.com/pricing/not published
2026-10-22runs-on.com/pricing/'AWS bills you for the instances at spot prices, with no markup. You pay us one license a year per company, sized by the jobs you run: no seats, no minute-metering.' with 'Free non-commercial EUR 0, OSS, non-profits' and 'Starter < 50k jobs/mo EUR 300/yr', quoted
2026-11-04runs-on.com/pricing/the control plane and its data transfer run in the user's AWS account; RunsOn publishes no egress allowance or overage price of its own
More fields 8
keep rate1.0
billing modelunclassified
session cap{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a job runs on an ephemeral AWS instance and is destroyed at the end; the page states no idle clock because there is nothing to keep"}
free tier kindallowance
granularity{"min_billed_s": 0,"rounding_s": null}
burst x1.0
ps{"gib": null,"price": "a gp3 root volume is part of the AWS bill","durability": "the instance's ephemeral root volume","on_stop": false,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "the job's lifetime"}
net{"out": true,"in": true,"ports": "the runner is reachable from AWS","static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"allowance": "egress bills on a user's AWS account"}
Unknown values 9
  • chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • egress metered: egress metering was not published
  • interface: the access interface was not established
  • limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
  • retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
  • retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field