Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
3 days ago
- #Pricing Update
- #GitHub Actions
- #CI/CD
- GitHub announces updates to pricing and product models for GitHub Actions to improve reliability and modernize legacy frameworks.
- All GitHub Actions jobs now run on a new architecture, handling 71 million jobs per day, a 3x increase from previous capacity.
- Price reductions for GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39%, effective January 1, 2026, with a new $0.002 per-minute cloud platform charge included.
- Introduction of a $0.002 per-minute Actions cloud platform charge for all workflows, impacting self-hosted runners starting March 1, 2026.
- Enhanced investment in self-hosted runner experience, including autoscaling beyond Linux containers, multi-label support, and new tools like GitHub Scale Set Client.
- Upcoming Actions Runner Controller 0.14.0 release with quality-of-life improvements and deprecation of legacy ARC.
- Actions Data Stream to provide real-time workflow and job event data for better observability and troubleshooting.
- 85% of impacted Actions users will see a bill decrease, with a median increase of $13 for the remaining 15%.
- Individual developers largely unaffected, with only 0.09% seeing a median increase of under $2 a month.
- Resources available for estimating new costs, including updated pricing calculator and detailed usage reports.