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Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions - GitHub Changelog (Adds self-hosted runner cost) (github.blog)
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On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the same.

On March 1, 2026, GitHub will introduce a new $0.002 per minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage. Any usage subject to this charge will count toward the minutes included in your plan, as explained in our GitHub Actions billing documentation.

Runner usage in public repositories will remain free. There will be no changes in price structure for GitHub Enterprise Server customers.

We are increasing our investment into our self-hosted experience to ensure that we can provide autoscaling for scenarios beyond just Linux containers.

Historically, self-hosted runner customers were able to leverage much of GitHub Actions’ infrastructure and services at no cost.

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago

Microsoft does this is other products too.

For example, python runs inside of Excel now so you can finally make good figures with matplotlib.

But they intentionally slow code compilation so it takes around 5x as long as as spyder for the same code.

Then, your code will time out after a couple seconds of execution and you "have to buy compute tokens" in order to be able to compute it further with your own machine.

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