Skipbox

Not yet independently verified. Dated from the Product Hunt feed entry of 10 November 2026, as the site gives no launch date. The price comparisons with GitHub and other runner services are the maker's own calculation. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

Skipbox sells a GitHub Actions runner the way a hosting company sells a server: one virtual machine per account, kept warm, for a fixed monthly price however many minutes it runs. Tomoya Fujita, founder and chief executive of Fluxenic in Tokyo, built it after CI became the slow step in his own team's work, and the company's other product, Convika, tests and deploys on it.

A machine that remembers

Because the runner is the account's own, it keeps Docker images and layers, build caches, package caches for npm, pip, Go, Gradle, Cargo and others, and the tool cache filled by setup actions from one job to the next. That sidesteps the limits of GitHub's own cache, which Skipbox's site sets out: caches not shared across branches, a cold first run on a new pull request, no overwriting a key, and deletion after seven days unused. Between jobs Skipbox wipes the runner's credentials, the checkout directory, the runner user's processes and containers, and credential files such as ~/.npmrc. A health check runs after every job and the image is rebuilt automatically when something goes wrong.

Three sizes, no meter

Minutes are unlimited on every plan; extra jobs wait their turn. Yearly billing gives two months free, and there is a seven-day trial without a card. Setup is signing in with GitHub, installing the Skipbox app on an organisation and changing a job's runs-on to skipbox.

Key facts

Maker: Fluxenic Inc., Tokyo, Japan Founder: Tomoya Fujita Launched: Product Hunt, 10 November 2026 Works with: GitHub Actions Pricing: S $39, M $79, L $149 a month (site, read 12 November 2026)