US
N. Virginia
us-east-1
spot · 7-day average $0.0323/hr
on-demand$0.0904
spot interrupt freq >20%
m6gd.large
Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processor (64-bit Arm Neoverse cores). General Purpose instance family that offers up to 40% better price/performance than comparable x86 M5 instances. Includes fast, low-latency, local NVMe-based SSD block storage (the 'd' variant) with up to 3.8 TB of capacity.
available for self-hosted runners on RunsOn
single-thread · passmark
1,107pts
vcpus
2
2 cores
memory
8 GiB
ram
clock speed
2.5 GHz
max frequency
architecture
arm64
Graviton
Measured
2 jobs of 2 finished in the EC2 CPU sweep, 30 Sep–10 Oct: the values are their medians. Every job links its log on the open harness.
CPU Mark
1,344
PassMark, both vCPUs
cores of work
1.98
sysbench, 2 threads ÷ 1
sysbench 1 thread
2,785
events per second
7-zip
8,989
MIPS, all threads
| date | suite | single-thread | capacity | job log |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Oct 2026 | EC2 CPU sweep | 1,109 | spot | job log ↗ |
| 30 Sep 2026 | EC2 CPU sweep | 1,105 | on-demand | job log ↗ |
EC2 instance family: m6gd
What the family is built for, the silicon underneath, and how to ask RunsOn for it.
m6gd general purpose
cpu type
Neoverse-N1 — Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processor (64-bit Arm Neoverse cores)
architecture
arm64
highlights
General Purpose instance family that offers up to 40% better price/performance than comparable x86 M5 instances. Includes fast, low-latency, local NVMe-based SSD block storage (the 'd' variant) with up to 3.8 TB of capacity
released
July 27, 2020
.github/workflows/ci.yml yaml
jobs: build: runs-on: - runs-on=${{ github.run_id }} - family=m6gd - cpu=2
the label is a query — each line one constraint, resolved at launch. job labels →
Availability & price by region
Spot is the 7-day average of the cheapest zone's spot price in each region, from the RunsOn finder: an estimate of an hour in your own AWS account, where RunsOn adds no markup. The bar shows how far it runs under on-demand; the badge is AWS's spot-interruption band for the type.
US cheapest spot
Oregon
us-west-2
spot · 7-day average $0.0279/hr
on-demand$0.0904
spot interrupt freq >20%
IE
Ireland
eu-west-1
spot · 7-day average $0.0427/hr
on-demand$0.1008
spot interrupt freq <5%
DE
Frankfurt
eu-central-1
spot · 7-day average $0.0465/hr
on-demand$0.1090
spot interrupt freq 10-15%
Spot is the cheapest availability zone's spot price at each of the RunsOn finder's fetches (every 90 minutes), averaged over 7 days; on-demand is the Linux list price. Savings compare the two. Prices fetched 12 Oct 2026. The interruption band is AWS Spot Advisor's, fetched 12 Oct 2026.
About these benchmarks
The open benchmark harness launches m6gd.large as a RunsOn runner and runs PassMark PerformanceTest (CPU Single
Threaded and CPU Mark), sysbench on one thread and on every thread, and 7-Zip's built-in benchmark. These numbers come from the
EC2 CPU sweep, the suite that measured this type in the most runs; each is the median over its runs of the current
workload definition in the last 75 days.
A type takes a place once it has 3 runs. A type within 5% of the type heading its group shares that place (“joint #2”); a lead under 5% is no lead.
Prices come from the RunsOn finder for the four regions shown; savings compare its 7-day average spot price with the on-demand price. RunsOn launches this type the same way for any job: ephemeral EC2 in your account, one CloudFormation stack. More in the methodology.
Run m6gd.large in your own account.
The benchmark runs on the same RunsOn anyone can deploy. One CloudFormation stack, your AWS account, ~10 minutes.