San Francisco, United States
Software Build Server in San Francisco
Build, test and ship on hardware you control — no per-minute billing and no shared queue.
- ✓ Self-hosted CI runners
- ✓ No per-minute billing
- ✓ Dedicated cores throughout
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from San Francisco. Your real figure depends on your connection and route, and lands inside this range.
Choose how the processor is shared
Every class ships the same hardware menu and the same Ubuntu Server 24.04 (LTS) 64-bit image. What changes is how the processor is shared — and the price moves with it.
Availability
Budget friendly
Cheap for a build box that runs overnight and that nobody waits on.
$283.50USD
per month
ConfigureGeneral purpose
Recommended
Consistent processor time, which keeps build times roughly repeatable.
$294.50USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
The usual choice
Dedicated cores mean nothing else competes for them, so a build takes as long as it takes and no longer.
$305.50USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
Not for compilation
A poor fit. Throttles under sustained load, and compilation is sustained load throughout.
$0.5859USD
per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed
Book by the hourAdd cores for a heavy release week and take them off afterwards — the change is made by hand on the same server, usually within the hour.
Bring your own CI
Hosted CI is priced per minute and shared with everyone else on the plan. A build server is a fixed cost that does not care how often you push.
Self-hosted runners
Point GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Buildkite at it. The machine is yours whether it is busy or idle.
No queue but yours
Nobody else is waiting in front of your job, and nothing throttles you for building too often.
Caches that persist
Dependency and layer caches stay on the disk between runs rather than being rebuilt from cold each time.
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server. Choose the region closest to the people pushing code and to whatever the build pulls from — package registries and your git host are the two round trips a build makes most.
San Francisco is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from San Francisco ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 62 km | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 559 km | 8–17 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,093 km | 16–33 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,383 km | 36–71 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 2,985 km | 45–90 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,437 km | 52–103 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,644 km | 55–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 4,129 km | 62–124 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,170 km | 63–125 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 8,275 km | 124–248 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 11,096 km | 166–333 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 11,948 km | 179–358 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,358 km | 185–371 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,573 km | 189–377 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,494 km | 202–405 ms |
| Singapore | 13,582 km | 204–407 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 8,616 km | 129–258 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,622 km | 129–259 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 8,773 km | 132–263 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 9,133 km | 137–274 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 9,318 km | 140–280 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 9,571 km | 144–287 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 10,343 km | 155–310 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,895 km | 178–357 ms |
Distances are from San Francisco. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Root access and your choice of toolchain
Daily off-server backups
No shared CPU — dedicated cores throughout
Any Linux image, or Windows if you build for it
Included with every Software server, in every class, at every location.
Build servers for San Francisco
We host servers for companies across San Francisco — from SoMa, the Mission, the Financial District, the Marina and Nob Hill — and the setup is the same wherever you are: you tell us what the server is for, we build it by hand, and you get access and the login details the same working day.
Santa Clara is our closest location at 62 km, which makes it the usual starting point. If the people using the server are somewhere else, host it somewhere else — every location costs the same.
Software Build Server in San Francisco — FAQs
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How much does a build server cost in San Francisco?
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