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actions-runner-controllervsResourceSpace

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

actions-runner-controllerResourceSpace
Score71/10064/100
Rank in category#7 of 28 in CI/CD#15 of 142 in Media Management
GitHub stars6 610—
Stars, last 30 days+93—
Stable releases, 12 months60
Latest releasegha-runner-scale-set-0.15.1 · 23 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0BSD-3-Clause
Main languageGo—

Which one should you pick?

actions-runner-controller scores 71/100 against 64/100 for ResourceSpace, so it is the safer default.

actions-runner-controller ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ResourceSpace.

If you want the quickest setup, ResourceSpace is easier to run; actions-runner-controller needs more configuration.

actions-runner-controller is growing faster right now (+93 stars in 30 days).

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