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boat runner benchmark.

SaaS · Dedicated hardware (EU) jobs ran from OVH (FR, PL) in Hauts-de-France, FR; Grand Est, FR +1 more 3 variants 2–8 vCPU x64 boat pricing

70 of 92 jobs finished across every suite, 22 failed (TypeScript 2, Burst 17, Cache 3).

Fastest variant per build, any size

Rust build 1m 50s $0.0025 7th of 98 vCPU TypeScript build 1m 11s $0.0017 9th of 98 vCPU Docker build 8m 47s $0.0113 8th of 98 vCPU Burst queue 10s 15 at once 2 runs2 vCPU Cache restore 1m 11s 4 GB 2 runs8 vCPU

Variants

Fastest firstCheapest first; × against boat's fastest variant with 3 runs; cost per build, on the whole job's time.

  1. boat8 vCPU · 16 GBVM disk · 4 runs1m 50s, cost per build $0.0025; phases: setup 22s, cargo test 50s, clippy 27s, ×1.00
  2. boat2 vCPU · 4 GBVM disk · 4 runs3m 52s, cost per build $0.0012; phases: setup 26s, cargo test 2m 07s, clippy 1m 05s, ×2.11
  3. boat4 vCPU · 8 GBVM disk · 4 runs4m 31s, cost per build $0.0029; phases: setup 48s, cargo test 2m 16s, clippy 1m 06s, ×2.46
  1. boat8 vCPU · 16 GBVM disk · 4 runs1m 11s, cost per build $0.0017; phases: toolchain 1s, clone 4s, bun install 25s, typecheck 34s, ×1.00
  2. boat4 vCPU · 8 GBVM disk · 4 runs1m 19s, cost per build $0.0010; phases: toolchain 1s, clone 4s, bun install 14s, typecheck 1m 00s, ×1.11
  3. boat2 vCPU · 4 GBVM disk6m 58s, cost per build $0.0022; phases: toolchain 2s, clone 5s, bun install 14s, typecheck 6m 38s, 2 runs
  1. boat8 vCPU · 16 GBVM disk · 3 runs8m 47s, cost per build $0.0113; phases: fetch source 28s, buildx setup 11s, docker build 7m 38s, ×1.00
  2. boat2 vCPU · 4 GBVM diskn/a · not run: needs more than 8 GB of memory
  3. boat4 vCPU · 8 GBVM diskn/a · not run: needs more than 8 GB of memory

Bar shades, light to dark, in execution order: setup = checkout + packages + toolchaincargo fmtcargo testclippy

Bar shades, light to dark, in execution order: toolchainclonebun installtypecheck

Bar shades, light to dark, in execution order: fetch sourcebuildx setupdocker build

Fixed costs not in cost per build

  • $20 plan $20/month$20 of VM time (555 h of the default size); needed for CI; 12 starts a minute, 100 at once
  • $100 plan $100/month$100 of VM time; the xlarge size; 30 starts a minute, 300 at once
  • $500 plan $500/month$500 of VM time; 65 starts a minute, 1,000 at once
  • $2000 plan $2000/month$2,000 of VM time; 90 starts a minute, 2,000 at once

Each plan is paid per seat; every dollar of it is VM time at the listed rates, and usage past it is billed at the same rates.

A 7-day free trial (25 compute hours), which does not run CI jobs; a plan's included VM time does not carry over. Checked 2026-11-06

All runners Methodology boat.json

Over timeone point per run · since Nov 7

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