GitHub stops subsidizing Actions in private repos
Self-hosted Actions in private repos were free until now. GitHub is now changing this and introducing new prices. Hosted Actions will become cheaper as a result.
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Starting in January 2026, GitHub will introduce new pricing for the automated tasks of Actions in private repositories. For runners on which the Actions run, there will be a price reduction of approximately forty percent if GitHub hosts them. Self-hosted runners, on the other hand, will incur a fee of 0.2 US cents per minute for the first time.
Actions in public repositories will remain free, and nothing will change for Enterprise Server either. GitHub justifies the change with a fairer distribution of infrastructure costs, as hosting customers have previously subsidized self-hosters. GitHub has calculated that nothing will change for 96 percent of customers, and of the remainder, 85 percent will see a price reduction on their bill. All others can expect an increase of 13 dollars on average per month. Costs can be planned using an online price calculator.
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In August, GitHub introduced a new infrastructure for Actions, on which 71 million jobs run per day. Actions automate jobs for software production, such as tests and builds. These run on runners, which are virtual OS environments.
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