CI/CD Cost

What CI really costs - and how to slash the bill.

Understand GitHub Actions pricing and billing, compare hosted vs self-hosted vs managed runner costs, and cut your CI bill with concrete playbooks. Includes a free cost calculator.

Pricing explained

Minutes, billing, and per-runner cost.

GitHub Actions pricing explainedHow GitHub Actions pricing actually works - included minutes, per-minute rates, multipliers for Windows and Runner cost comparison by sizePer-minute and monthly cost of GitHub Actions runners by size, compared with Latchkey managed runners. Latchkey pricing and plansLatchkey pricing explained: plans from $5/month with 2,000 to 6,000 free runner minutes, managed GitHub

Cut costs

Playbooks to lower your CI bill.

How to cut GitHub Actions costsTwelve concrete ways to cut your GitHub Actions bill - caching, concurrency, path filters, runner sizing,

Calculators

Estimate and compare your spend.

GitHub Actions cost calculatorFree GitHub Actions cost calculator: enter your monthly CI minutes and runner size to see your current bill Measure GitHub Actions costsFind where your GitHub Actions minutes actually go, using the billing API and run data, before optimising

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