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Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

785 points • by kevin-david • last Tuesday at 5:12 PM • 804 comments • view on HN

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throwaway613745 • last Tuesday at 6:42 PM

Use open source software. Buy your own compute. Make the effort. It's worth it.

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systemBuilder • last Tuesday at 10:28 PM

$3 a day, $100/mo to run your own github actions (which is a programming language based atop json ... sheesh). Ugh!!

more_corn • last Tuesday at 10:09 PM

Gitlab here I come

guluarte • last Tuesday at 8:43 PM

it looks ms wants to kill all their IP, xbox, windows, now github

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colechristensen • last Tuesday at 7:08 PM

I read this and I'm thinking I should just get Claude to write me my own GitHub (with blackjack! and... nevermind)

I'm in the era of writing my own tools, not to share just for me or whatever group I'm working in. If you're going to charge me for something rife with annoying struggles, I might as well be annoyed by a tool I control.

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nodesocket • last Tuesday at 7:04 PM

Is there any included free amount of platform minutes for private orgs/repos? Currently using Blakcksmith with arm64 and do around 600 minutes a month (very small). I get 2,000 free minutes of GitHub runner time for free, so maybe have to switch to using GitHub native arm64 runners.

That being said even with no free platform minutes my Blacksmith usage will only $1.20 a month in platform fees, so inconsequential.

wilg • last Tuesday at 6:59 PM

I was worried about this, but $10/mo for 5000 self-hosted minutes isn't terrible, the self-hosted runner feature is great for our use cases where the repo is too big to run in the cloud generally and/or ingress/egress is too expensive.

re-thc • last Tuesday at 6:49 PM

Why are there no changes for plans with included minutes e.g. enterprise that has 50000 since the runners are now cheaper? So now the included tier has effectively been reduced.

nodesocket • last Tuesday at 6:45 PM

Do private orgs/repos get any free platform minutes? Currently I’m getting 2,000 free minutes of action runtime with a private org/repos.

zzzeek • last Tuesday at 5:49 PM

how long before they start skimming OSS projects that are public but nonetheless have Github Sponsors income. I mean that's money right there for them right

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some_furry • last Tuesday at 7:10 PM

Oh great. I finally get used to GitHub Actions after Travis CI shat the bed, and now I have to find something else.

Thanks, enshittification.

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gaigalas • last Tuesday at 6:42 PM

> TL;DR GitHub is adding a $0.002-per-minute fee on all GitHub Actions usage, so the control plane is no longer free.

That's not true for _all GitHub Actions usage_.

https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-fo...

> Standard GitHub-hosted or self-hosted runner usage on public repositories will remain free.

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Sytten • last Tuesday at 11:01 PM

Maybe with this "investment" will get an actual solution for Github Actions sh*t version management of actions[1] after just closing the Immutable Actions issue with a "sucks to be you" comment[2]. AI-Native Github action Agentic package management for Copilot /s

[1] https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager... [2] https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/592

andrewmcwatters • last Tuesday at 5:57 PM

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spwa4 • last Tuesday at 6:58 PM

TLDR: Github is no longer free for self-hosted actions in private repositories, although there is a free quota.

BugsJustFindMe • last Tuesday at 6:24 PM

Everyone in this thread has gone absolutely insane. $5/month gets you 41 fucking _hours_ of continuous operation. If you're not utterly abusing the platform, this falls extremely below the threshold of caring. And if not, what the fuck are you even doing with all those hours? The new per-minute charge is less than one millisecond of engineer labor cost.

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