Metered CI bills by the minute, and on some platforms by the runner as well. Vetrix does not bill for either. Put your own numbers in and see the difference for yourself.
Rates as of August 2026. Competitor rates change; check the current published rate before you rely on this.
This compares CI cost only. It does not price seats, licences, storage, or the servers you would run Vetrix on. See what it leaves out.
| Platform | How it charges | Your CI cost |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Actions | $0.006 per minute on the standard Linux 2-core x64 GitHub-hosted runner. Self-hosted runners are not charged. | $6.00 |
| Bitbucket Pipelines | $10.00 per 1,000 additional build minutes ($0.010 per minute) on the Standard plan, plus $15.00 per month for each premium self-hosted runner slot beyond the one Standard includes. | $10.00 |
| Vetrix Free, always | Nothing. Self-hosted runners are free. | $0.00 |
Which rates these are. GitHub Actions is quoted at the standard GitHub-hosted Linux 2-core x64 runner, the default for ubuntu-latest and the class most projects run on; GitHub also publishes $0.002 (Linux 1-core), $0.005 (Linux 2-core arm64), $0.010 (Windows 2-core) and $0.062 (macOS 3/4-core), and charges nothing at all for self-hosted runners. Bitbucket Pipelines is quoted on the Standard plan at the published rate for additional build minutes. Atlassian bills metered build minutes and premium self-hosted runner slots alternatively, not together: the CI minutes per month figure above is Atlassian-hosted minutes, and a build that runs on a self-hosted runner slot consumes none of it. Sources and dates are in the footer.
At 1,000 CI minutes a month with one runner, one month of CI costs $6.00 on GitHub Actions — 1,000 minutes at $0.006 on the standard Linux 2-core runner — and $10.00 on Bitbucket Pipelines, at $10.00 per 1,000 build minutes. On Vetrix it costs $0.00.
The single runner adds nothing on either platform: GitHub does not charge for self-hosted runners, and Bitbucket's Standard plan includes one premium self-hosted runner slot. A second concurrent Bitbucket slot would add $15.00 a month. On Vetrix, runners are free at any number.
Self-hosted runners are free, always. This is a product choice, not a roadmap item.
That is not an introductory rate, a promotion, or a free tier with a meter waiting behind it. There is no CI billing code in Vetrix to switch on. The commitment is pinned by a regression test in the product's own codebase, so changing it would mean deliberately deleting a test that exists to stop exactly that.
This is a CI-cost comparison, and CI cost is only part of what a platform costs you.
What it does show is the part of the bill that scales with how much you build — the part that grows every time your test suite does.
Free for noncommercial use, published prices for small teams, quoted bands above that. CI is not metered on any of them.
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