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GitHub Actions pricing & features
CI/CD native to GitHub — workflows + marketplace + hosted runners
CI/CD integrated with GitHub. YAML workflows, matrix builds, hosted + self-hosted runners, 20,000+ Marketplace actions. Free tier generous for public repos.
Data sourced from vendor documentation · Last updated May 2026
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Public Repos | Free | $0. Free unlimited minutes on hosted runners (Linux). No private runners. |
| Free (Personal) | Free | $0. 2,000 minutes/mo private repos (Linux). 500MB Packages storage. |
| Per-minute Overage | $0/mo | $0.008/min Linux ($0.08 macOS, $0.016 Windows) after included minutes. |
| Team | $4/mo | $4/user/mo. 3,000 minutes/mo. 2GB storage. Org management. |
| Enterprise | $21/mo | $21/user/mo. 50,000 minutes/mo. 50GB storage. SAML SSO, audit. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | arc scaling | Actions Runner Controller (ARC) — Kubernetes-based auto-scaling for self-hosted | ARC |
| — | artifact retention | 90 days default (configurable 1-400) | Artifacts |
| — | concurrency | 20 concurrent jobs free, 40 Team, 180 Enterprise | Concurrency |
| — | marketplace size | 20,000+ Actions in Marketplace | Marketplace |
| — | matrix | Strategy matrix — parallel jobs over axes (OS × version × arch) | Matrix |
| — | oidc | OIDC token exchange with AWS/Azure/GCP (no long-lived creds) | OIDC |
| — | reusable workflows | workflow_call trigger — reuse workflows across repos | Reusable |
| — | runner types | Ubuntu, Windows, macOS, larger runners (4-64 vCPU), ARM64, GPU runners | Hosted runners |
| — | self hosted | Self-hosted runners on your infra (free minutes on Team+) | Self-hosted |
Features
- ARC (K8s Controller) — Autoscale self-hosted on K8s.
- Actions Cache — Persistent cache across runs.
- Actions Marketplace — 20K+ reusable actions.
- 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
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| sdk-octokit | @actions/* toolkit | sdk | 1.x |
| marketplace | Actions Marketplace | other | — |
| web-ui | Actions Tab (Web) | other | — |
| rest-api | GitHub Actions REST API | rest | v3 |
| graphql | GitHub GraphQL (Actions) | graphql | v4 |
| yaml-workflow | Workflow YAML | other | v2 |
| cli-gh | gh run CLI | cli | 2.x |
| webhooks | workflow_* webhooks | other | — |
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