GitHub Actions runner pricing

Pay per minute from prepaid credit. Start with 200 free minutes.

$0.012 / min

8-core

Faster than GitHub

Best for: teams whose CI uses several cores and want it faster. Against GitHub's 2-core runner each minute costs more but carries four times the CPU.

Start free: 200 minutes

$0.014 / min

8-core

Faster still: warm machines kept ready with your dependencies and caches

Best for: Teams whose CI is slow because of setup: dependency installs, databases, browsers

Start free: 200 minutes

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Prepaid credit: top up $20, $100 (get $110) or $500 (get $600). Never expires; unused credit refunded on request. Add credit

Free trial terms: 200 free minutes over 14 days, up to 2 jobs at once, Linux only. Card required; no charge until the minutes run out.