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GitHub Actions pricing and limits

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github.com/features/actions · CI/CD
SEPT 2026 audit

CI/CD built into GitHub, billed per minute on hosted runners and free on self-hosted ones.

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Entry paid planGitHub Team: $4 USD per user/month (Free $0, Enterprise $21 USD per user/month).
RegionsAzure private networking for GitHub-hosted larger runners is supported in 25 Azure regions on GitHub.com, including EastUs, NorthEurope, UkSouth, AustraliaEast and JapanWest; runners deploy in the same region as your subnet. Region choice applies only to larger runners with Azure private networking, not standard hosted runners.
Free tierYes
CategoryCI/CD

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 20 criteria comparedSources last checked

GitHub Actions pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
GitHub Team: $4 USD per user/month (Free $0, Enterprise $21 USD per user/month) source ↗
Pricing model
Per-minute billing beyond the included allowance: $0.006/minute (Linux), $0.010/minute (Windows), $0.062/minute (macOS) source ↗
What the free plan includes
A per-plan quota of minutes, artifact storage and cache for private repositories, resetting each billing cycle source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in GitHub Actions pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Repos already on GitHub — no separate CI product to wire up, and self-hosted runners cost nothing to use beyond the hardware itself.

Consider something else if…

Heavy macOS usage — at $0.062/minute it's by far the most expensive runner type here, and a dedicated CI product may price Mac builds differently.

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GitHub Actions pricing

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Free tierYes
Sources (1) →
  • About billing for GitHub Actions ↗

    “For private repositories, each GitHub account receives a quota of free minutes, artifact storage, and cache storage for use with GitHub-hosted runners, depending on the account's plan.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Kind of free offerFree tier
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What the free plan includesA per-plan quota of minutes, artifact storage and cache for private repositories, resetting each billing cycle. Minutes on public repositories are free with no quota.
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Credit card to startNo — Blocked rather than billed at the quota, so the included minutes run without one. Larger runners always need one.
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Entry paid planGitHub Team: $4 USD per user/month (Free $0, Enterprise $21 USD per user/month).
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Pricing modelPer-minute billing beyond the included allowance: $0.006/minute (Linux), $0.010/minute (Windows), $0.062/minute (macOS). Artifact storage overage $0.25/GB-month; cache storage overage $0.07/GB-month.
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Limits

2 criteria
Build allowance2,000 minutes/month on GitHub Free; 3,000 on Pro and Team; 50,000 on Enterprise Cloud.
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  • GitHub Actions billing - GitHub Docs ↗

    “Plan Artifact storage Minutes (per month) Cache storage (per repository) Custom image storage GitHub Free 500 MB 2,000 10 GB Not applicable GitHub Pro 1 GB 3,000 10 GB Not applicable GitHub Free for organizations 500 MB 2,000 10 GB Not applicable GitHub Team 2 GB 3,000 10 GB 75 GB GitHub Enterprise Cloud 50 GB 50,000 10 GB 150 GB”

    Read 2026-09-27 · official docs · Report a correction

Concurrent buildsTotal concurrent jobs on standard GitHub-hosted runners: 20 on Free, 40 Pro, 60 Team, 500 Enterprise; 1,000 on larger runners (Team and Enterprise). GitHub Support can increase these on request.
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  • Actions limits - GitHub Docs ↗

    “Standard GitHub-hosted runner Free 20 5 Not applicable Standard GitHub-hosted runner Pro 40 5 Not applicable Standard GitHub-hosted runner Team 60 5 Not applicable Standard GitHub-hosted runner Enterprise 500 50 Not applicable [...] Larger runner Team 1000 5 100 Larger runner Enterprise 1000 50 100”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Infrastructure

1 criteria
RegionsAzure private networking for GitHub-hosted larger runners is supported in 25 Azure regions on GitHub.com, including EastUs, NorthEurope, UkSouth, AustraliaEast and JapanWest; runners deploy in the same region as your subnet. Region choice applies only to larger runners with Azure private networking, not standard hosted runners.
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CI/CD

2 criteria
Max job durationUp to 6 hours of execution time per job on GitHub-hosted runners. A job that exceeds this is terminated and fails.
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Self-hosted runnersFree for self-hosted runners — no usage charges beyond the runner's own infrastructure cost.
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Compliance

9 criteria
SOC 2SOC 1, Type 2 and SOC 2, Type 2 reports are downloadable by enterprise owners from GitHub Enterprise Cloud compliance settings.
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ISO 27001ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, plus CSA STAR Level 2 certification, downloadable by enterprise owners from compliance settings.
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GDPR / data residencyGitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency stores enterprise data in a chosen region - EU, Australia, US or Japan; GitHub.com defaults to the USA.
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PCI DSSGitHub PCI DSS Attestation of Compliance is downloadable by enterprise owners from GitHub Enterprise Cloud compliance settings.
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Encryption at restStorage disks for GitHub-hosted runners are encrypted at rest; all communications to GitHub are encrypted. Stated in GitHub's own April 2025 CI/CD blog post, not in a compliance report.
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Customer-managed keysNot supported for Actions blob storage on GitHub Enterprise Server with Google Cloud Storage: the bucket must use Google-managed encryption keys. Scope: Actions blob storage on GitHub Enterprise Server with Google Cloud Storage.
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Role-based access controlPredefined and custom organization roles grant permission sets to individuals or teams; custom organization roles require GitHub Enterprise Cloud.
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  • Roles in an organization - GitHub Docs ↗

    “Organization owners can assign roles to individuals and teams giving them different sets of permissions in the organization. [...] This feature is only available to organizations on GitHub Enterprise Cloud.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Private networking / VPCGitHub-hosted larger runners (2-64 vCPU Ubuntu and Windows) can run in a customer Azure VNET subnet; standard GitHub-hosted runners are not supported.
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Dedicated infrastructureGitHub-hosted runners are shared across all GitHub customers; private networking configures hosted runners to be used exclusively for your private network.
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GitHub Actions pricing questions

How much does GitHub Actions cost?

GitHub Team: $4 USD per user/month (Free $0, Enterprise $21 USD per user/month).

Pricing · Plans for every developer · GitHub · read

How does GitHub Actions charge?

Per-minute billing beyond the included allowance: $0.006/minute (Linux), $0.010/minute (Windows), $0.062/minute (macOS). Artifact storage overage $0.25/GB-month; cache storage overage $0.07/GB-month.

About billing for GitHub Actions · read

Does GitHub Actions have a free tier?

Yes. A per-plan quota of minutes, artifact storage and cache for private repositories, resetting each billing cycle. Minutes on public repositories are free with no quota.

About billing for GitHub Actions · read

Do you need a credit card to start on GitHub Actions?

No — Blocked rather than billed at the quota, so the included minutes run without one. Larger runners always need one.

About billing for GitHub Actions · read

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