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Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions - GitHub Changelog (Adds self-hosted runner cost) (github.blog)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Kissaki@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the same.

On March 1, 2026, GitHub will introduce a new $0.002 per minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage. Any usage subject to this charge will count toward the minutes included in your plan, as explained in our GitHub Actions billing documentation.

Runner usage in public repositories will remain free. There will be no changes in price structure for GitHub Enterprise Server customers.

We are increasing our investment into our self-hosted experience to ensure that we can provide autoscaling for scenarios beyond just Linux containers.

Historically, self-hosted runner customers were able to leverage much of GitHub Actions’ infrastructure and services at no cost.

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[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're still using their hardware for the coordinator, artifact storage, etc. aren't you?

The last thing I want to be doing is defending microsoft, but this is inevitable in any free service. In fact this seems like one of the least-bad ways of enshittifying.

We should all be moving to self-hosting or shared hosting through a non-profit, but neither of those are going to be free.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, but charging $0.002/minute is pretty extreme for being a coordinator. That's the current per minute rate for single core GitHub actions. Is being a coordinator really consuming an entire vCPU of compute for your own runners?

FYI You already pay for artifact storage.