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GrowthBook vs GitHub Actions

Open-source feature flags + experimentation — Warehouse Native
vs. CI/CD native to GitHub — workflows + marketplace + hosted runners

GrowthBook website ↗GitHub Actions ↗

Pricing tiers

GrowthBook

Open Source (Self-Host)
MIT-licensed. Unlimited everything. Community support.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Starter (Free)
Up to 3 users. Unlimited flags + experiments. Warehouse Native included.
Free
Cloud — Pro
$40/user/month. Up to 50 users. Advanced stats, visual A/B editor, CUPED, sequential testing, bandits.
$40/mo
Cloud — Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, SSO/SAML, approval flows, data pipelines, exportable audit logs.
Custom
Self-Host Enterprise
Open Source + Enterprise license. Visual A/B editor, advanced metrics, SSO/SAML, approvals, training.
Custom
GrowthBook website ↗

GitHub Actions

Public Repos
$0. Free unlimited minutes on hosted runners (Linux). No private runners.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free (Personal)
$0. 2,000 minutes/mo private repos (Linux). 500MB Packages storage.
Free
Per-minute Overage
$0.008/min Linux ($0.08 macOS, $0.016 Windows) after included minutes.
$0/mo
Team
$4/user/mo. 3,000 minutes/mo. 2GB storage. Org management.
$4/mo
Enterprise
$21/user/mo. 50,000 minutes/mo. 50GB storage. SAML SSO, audit.
$21/mo
GitHub Actions ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing oss on GrowthBook vs free on GitHub Actions.

MetricGrowthBookGitHub Actions
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

GrowthBook · 15 features

  • Approval Flows — Require reviewer approval on flag changes. Enterprise.
  • Audit Logs — Full change history. Exportable on Enterprise.
  • Dimensions & Slicing — Break down experiment results by user dimensions.
  • Edge SDK Support — Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Fastly, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Netlify Edge.
  • Experiments — A/B/n with CUPED variance reduction + sequential testing.
  • Feature Flags — Boolean + string + number + JSON flags with targeting.
  • Feature Reviews (PR-style) — Draft → review → approve flag changes.
  • Guardrail Metrics — Auto-monitor key metrics during experiments.
  • Metric Catalog — Define + reuse metrics across experiments.
  • Multi-Armed Bandits — Adaptive traffic allocation. Pro+.
  • Safe Rollouts — Guarded gradual rollouts with automatic rollback.
  • SSO / SAML — Enterprise SSO for cloud + self-host EE.
  • Sticky Bucketing — User stays in variant even after eligibility changes.
  • Visual A/B Test Editor — No-code DOM editor for web experiments. Pro+.
  • Warehouse Native — Connect your warehouse + run experiments against your events data.

GitHub Actions · 18 features

  • Actions Cache — Persistent cache across runs.
  • Actions Marketplace — 20K+ reusable actions.
  • ARC (K8s Controller) — Autoscale self-hosted on K8s.
  • Artifacts — Upload/download job outputs.
  • Composite Actions — Actions made of other actions.
  • Concurrency Groups — Cancel / queue overlapping runs.
  • Container Jobs — Run a whole job in a Docker image.
  • Environments + Approvals — Gate deploys with manual approval.
  • Job Summaries — Markdown summaries in UI.
  • Larger Runners — 4-64 vCPU, ARM, GPU.
  • Matrix Strategy — Fan out over axes.
  • OIDC Cloud Auth — Exchange JWT for cloud credentials.
  • Reusable Workflows — workflow_call.
  • Secrets + Variables — Encrypted org/repo/env secrets.
  • Self-Hosted Runners — Your own runners.
  • Service Containers — Sidecar containers (DBs, Redis) per job.
  • Triggers — push, pull_request, schedule, workflow_dispatch, etc.
  • Workflows — Event-driven YAML workflows.

Developer interfaces

KindGrowthBookGitHub Actions
CLI—gh run CLI
SDKEdge SDKs (CF Workers / Lambda@Edge / Fastly / Akamai), growthbook-android, growthbook-flutter, growthbook-go, growthbook-java, growthbook-node, growthbook-php, growthbook-python, growthbook-ruby, growthbook-swift, sdk-javascript, sdk-react@actions/* toolkit
RESTGrowthBook REST APIGitHub Actions REST API
GRAPHQL—GitHub GraphQL (Actions)
OTHERWebhooksActions Marketplace, Actions Tab (Web), workflow_* webhooks, Workflow YAML
Staxly is an independent catalog of developer platforms. Outbound links to GrowthBook and GitHub Actions are plain references to their official websites. Pricing is verified against vendor pages at publication time — reconfirm before buying.

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