GitHub Actions Cost Calculator - Estimate & Cut Your CI Bill
Enter your monthly CI minutes and runner size to see what GitHub-hosted runners cost you today - and what the same workload runs for on Latchkey.
GitHub-hosted runners bill per minute, and larger runners bill from the first minute with no free allowance. Most teams have no idea what they actually spend until the invoice lands. Use the calculator below to estimate your current bill, the savings from cheaper managed runners, and the minutes you waste on flaky re-runs that self-healing recovers automatically.
Estimate only. GitHub-hosted Linux list prices: 2-core $0.008, 4-core $0.016, 8-core $0.032 per minute. Latchkey managed-runner prices: 2 vCPU $0.0025, 4 vCPU $0.005, 8 vCPU $0.01 per minute, plus included free minutes. Flaky re-runs are wasted minutes you pay for twice; self-healing recovers most of them automatically.
How the estimate works
- GitHub-hosted Linux list prices: $0.008/min (2-core), $0.016/min (4-core), $0.032/min (8-core).
- Latchkey managed-runner prices: $0.0025/min (2 vCPU), $0.005/min (4 vCPU), $0.01/min (8 vCPU), with included free minutes.
- Flaky re-runs are minutes you pay for twice. Self-healing CI recovers the large majority of them without a human re-running the job.
Why managed runners are cheaper
GitHub-hosted runners bundle convenience into a premium per-minute rate. Managed runners like Latchkey run your jobs on right-sized cloud instances at close to raw compute cost, then add caching and self-healing on top - so you pay less per minute *and* waste fewer minutes.