RunsOn alternatives

Other CI/CD & DevOps automation tools to consider instead of RunsOn. Key features and starting prices come from each vendor's own site.

Feature	RunsOn Rising	CircleCI Category leader	GitHub Actions Category leader	Jenkins Category leader	Blacksmith Rising	Namespace Rising	Depot
Pricing	$350/year	Free plan $15/month	Free plan	Free	Free plan $0.0025/min	Free plan $100/month	$20/month
Best for	Engineering teams on AWS that run GitHub Actions at volume and want runners inside their own account at AWS cost.	Small dev teams (free up to 5 active users) that want usage-based CI/CD on Docker, Windows, Linux, Arm and macOS runners.	Software teams of any size that already host their code on GitHub and want CI/CD without a separate tool.	Engineering teams of any size that want a free, self-hosted CI server and can maintain their own build infrastructure.	Engineering teams already running GitHub Actions who want faster, cheaper builds without changing their workflows.	Engineering teams that run GitHub Actions, Docker or Bazel builds and need faster hosted runners, including macOS and Windows, billed by usage.	Engineering teams of 5 to 100 that build Docker images and run GitHub Actions and want faster builds without managing their own runners.
Team size	2–500+ people	2–500+ people	1–500+ people	2–500+ people	2–500+ people	2–500+ people	2–500+ people
Pipeline as code	Not listed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed
Parallel and cached builds	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Managed build runners	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not listed	Yes	Yes	Yes
Deployment automation	Not listed	Yes	Yes	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed
Secrets management	Not listed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not listed	Not listed	Yes
Approval gates	Not listed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed
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