US best spot
N. Virginia
us-east-1
spot · avg $0.0539/hr
on-demand$0.0898
spot interrupt freq 15-20%
m8g.large
AWS Graviton4 processors General-purpose instances, up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based M7g instances, built on the AWS Nitro System, and feature DDR5-5600 memory. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon EBS
available for self-hosted runners on RunsOn
cpu speed · passmark single-thread
1,928pts
vcpus
2
physical threads
memory
7.6 GiB
ram
clock speed
2.7 GHz
max frequency
architecture
aarch64
arm64
EC2 instance family: m8g
What the family is built for, the silicon underneath, and how to ask RunsOn for it.
m8g general purpose
cpu type
AWS Graviton4 Processor — AWS Graviton4 processors
architecture
arm64 · aarch64
highlights
General-purpose instances, up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based M7g instances, built on the AWS Nitro System, and feature DDR5-5600 memory. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon EBS
released
General Availability was announced on September 25, 2024
.github/workflows/ci.yml yaml
jobs: build: runs-on: - runs-on=${{ github.run_id }} - family=m8g - cpu=2
the label is a query — each line one constraint, resolved at launch. job labels →
Availability & price by region
Spot is the average price RunsOn pays in your own AWS account — no per-minute markup. The bar shows how far under on-demand each region runs; the badge is the observed spot-interruption frequency.
US
Oregon
us-west-2
spot · avg $0.0412/hr
on-demand$0.0898
spot interrupt freq <5%
IE
Ireland
eu-west-1
spot · avg $0.0452/hr
on-demand$0.1000
spot interrupt freq 5-10%
DE
Frankfurt
eu-central-1
spot · avg $0.0554/hr
on-demand$0.1075
spot interrupt freq <5%
Spot prices are trailing averages per region and move with the market. On-demand is the list reference. Interrupt frequency is AWS's published spot-advisor band for this instance type.
About these benchmarks
CPU is the Passmark single-thread metric, run on a live m8g.large instance and averaged over many days so a single noisy run can't skew the score.
Pricing is normalized to the hourly rate AWS bills, then shown per region. Spot is the trailing average; savings is measured against the same region's on-demand list price.
This instance is launched the exact same way any RunsOn job launches it — ephemeral EC2 in your account, one CloudFormation stack, nothing to babysit.
Run m8g.large in your own account.
The benchmark runs on the same RunsOn anyone can deploy. One CloudFormation stack, your AWS account, ~10 minutes.