Quick GitHub Actions cost calculator
One plan, one runner type, one month. Enter the minutes you use, or your runs and how long each takes, and the page shows how many of your plan's included minutes that uses, how many minutes are billed and what they cost. It is a single small script with the prices built in: once the page has loaded it makes no further request, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
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Your usage
Private repositories. With runs, each run counts as one job and its length is rounded up to a whole minute, as GitHub does for every job.
Estimated bill
- Minutes run per month
- 0 min
- Included minutes used
- 0 min
- Billable minutes (beyond the plan)
- 0 min
- Estimated cost per month
- $0.00
The bill covers Actions minutes only. Storage for artifacts and caches, and the price of the plan itself, are not included.
The formula
- Minutes run = the minutes per month you enter, or runs per month × minutes per run with the run length rounded up to a whole minute.
- Included minutes used = the smaller of the minutes run and the minutes your plan includes each month.
- Billable minutes = minutes run − included minutes used.
- Estimated cost per month = billable minutes × the runner's per-minute rate.
The rates of the standard GitHub-hosted runners and the minutes each plan includes were read from GitHub's documentation on 2026-10-05: Actions runner pricing and GitHub Actions billing. Each rate and allowance is shown next to its name in the plan and runner menus above.
What this page does not cover
- Public repositories: standard GitHub-hosted runners are free there, so the cost is zero and no included minutes are used.
- A mix of runner types, a public or private switch, a per-runner breakdown and the cost per year: use the full calculator, which gives the same result as this page for a single runner type.
- Larger runners, storage, the price of the plan itself, taxes, discounts and spending limits on your account.
The assumptions behind both calculators are set out in how it works.
Free cheat sheet: a PDF and a CSV of the GitHub-hosted runner rates and plan allowances, a free download hosted on Gumroad. Prices last checked on 2026-10-05; estimates only.