> is $0.002/minute a good price for this

It was free, so anything other than free isn't really a good price. It's hard to estimate the cost on github's side when the hardware is mine and therefore accept this easily.

(Github is already polling my agent to know it's status so whether is "idle" or "running action" shouldn't really change a lot on their side.)

...And we already pay montly subscription for team members and copilot.

I have a self-hosted runner because I must have many tools installed for my builds and find it kinda counter productive to always reinstall those tools for each build as this takes a long time. (Yeah, I know "reproducible builds" aso, but I only have 24h in most of my days)

Even for a few hundreds minutes a month, we're still under a few $ so not worth spending two days to improve anything... yet.