What are the cheapest cloud providers for hosting GitLab CI runners if we want to keep our monthly developer tooling expenses under five hundred dollars?
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2026 cloud VM pricing Hetzner DigitalOcean Vultr OVH AWS EC2 Spot GitLab CI runner cost comparison Google ↗
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