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GitHub Actions billing

Learn how usage of {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %} is measured against your free allowance and how to pay for additional use.

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How use of {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %} is measured

{% data variables.product.prodname_actions %} usage is free for self-hosted runners and for public repositories that use standard {% data variables.product.github %}-hosted runners. See AUTOTITLE.

For private repositories, each {% data variables.product.github %} account receives a quota of free minutes and artifact storage for use with {% data variables.product.github %}-hosted runners, depending on the account's plan. Any usage beyond the included amounts is billed to your account. Minutes reset every month, while storage usage does not.

Tip

Anyone with write access to a repository can run actions without using minutes for their personal account.

Examples of how usage is measured

If you run a workflow on a standard Linux runner and it takes 10 minutes to complete, you'll use 10 minutes of the repository owner's allowance. If the workflow generates a 10 MB artifact, then you'll also use 10 MB of the repository owner's storage allowance.
If you run a workflow that normally takes 10 minutes and it fails after 5 minutes because a dependency isn't available, you'll use 5 minutes of the repository owner's allowance. If you fix the problem and re-run the workflow successfully, in total you'll use 15 minutes of the repository owner's allowance.
If you run a workflow that generates many log files and a long job summary, these files do not count towards the repository owner's storage allowance.

Free use of {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %}

The following amounts of time for standard runners and artifact storage are included in your {% data variables.product.github %} plan. At the start of each month, the minutes used by the account are reset to zero.

Plan	Storage	Minutes (per month)
{% data variables.product.prodname_free_user %}	500 MB	2,000
{% data variables.product.prodname_pro %}	1 GB	3,000
{% data variables.product.prodname_free_team %} for organizations	500 MB	2,000
{% data variables.product.prodname_team %}	2 GB	3,000
{% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %}	50 GB	50,000

Note

Included minutes cannot be used for larger runners. These runners will always be charged for, even when used by public repositories.

The use of standard {% data variables.product.github %}-hosted runners is free:

In public repositories
For {% data variables.product.prodname_pages %}
For {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot %}
For the agentic features ({% data variables.release-phases.public_preview %}) in {% data variables.copilot.copilot_code-review %}

Using more than your included quota

If your account does not have a valid payment method on file, usage is blocked once you use up your quota.

Paying for additional {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %} use

You pay for any additional use above your quota using the payment method set up for your {% data variables.product.github %} account. See AUTOTITLE.

Storage is billed based on hourly usage of artifacts throughout the month. Minutes are calculated based on the total processing time used on each runner type during the month.

To estimate costs for paid {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %} usage, use the {% data variables.product.github %} pricing calculator.
To view your current minutes and storage, see AUTOTITLE.

Note

The billing dashboard may show your Actions usage as a dollar amount ("spend") rather than raw minutes. This amount already reflects any applicable minute multipliers.

Minute multipliers

Each type of runner has a minute multipler that is determined by the operating system and processing power. For example, jobs that run on Windows and macOS runners hosted by {% data variables.product.github %} consume minutes at 2 and 10 times the rate that jobs on Linux runners consume.

Operating system	Minute multiplier
Linux	1
Windows	2
macOS	10

For full details of minute multiplers for {% data variables.product.github %}-hosted runners, see AUTOTITLE.

Example minutes cost calculation

For example, if your organization uses {% data variables.product.prodname_team %}, using 5,000 minutes beyond the included quota would have a total storage and minute cost of $56 USD, with the use of both Linux and Windows runners.

5,000 (3,000 Linux and 2,000 Windows) minutes = $56 USD ($24 USD + $32 USD).
- 3,000 Linux minutes at $0.008 USD per minute = $24 USD.
- 2,000 Windows minutes at $0.016 USD per minute = $32 USD.

This example assumes that the baseline runner was used for each operating system.

Example storage cost calculation

For example, if you use 3 GB of storage for 10 days of March and 12 GB for 21 days of March, your storage usage would be:

3 GB x 10 days x (24 hours per day) = 720 GB-Hours
12 GB x 21 days x (24 hours per day) = 6,048 GB-Hours
720 GB-Hours + 6,048 GB-Hours = 6,768 GB-Hours
6,768 GB-Hours / (744 hours per month) = 9.0967 GB-Months

At the end of the month, {% data variables.product.github %} rounds your storage to the nearest MB. Therefore, your storage usage for March would be 9.097 GB.

Note

{% data variables.product.github %} updates your storage space within a 6 to 12-hour window. If you delete artifacts, the available space will be reflected in your account during the next scheduled update.

Managing your budget for {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %}

{% data reusables.billing.default-over-quota-behavior %}

{% data reusables.billing.migrated-budgets %}

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