alt Hacker NewsBecause the competitor services that provide much cheaper hosted runners also charge per minute.
This isn't aimed at people actually self-hosting; it's aimed at alternative hosted runners providers. See this list
Because the competitor services that provide much cheaper hosted runners also charge per minute.
This isn't aimed at people actually self-hosting; it's aimed at alternative hosted runners providers. See this list
Runner price based on CPU/memory and time makes sense, since those are the costs associated with executing runners.
The costs for GitHub doing action workflows (excluding running) is less related to job duration.
The most charitable interpretation is that per-minute pricing is easier to understand, especially if you already pay runners per minute.
The less charitable interpretation is that they charge that because they can, as they have the mindshare and network effect to keep you from changing.