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Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by verdverm » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:51 PM UTC

defraudbah wrote: post #12

I didn't find a single example of any of the upcoming features, should I follow them in github to read release notes?

they are only building "ai" features now

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by verdverm » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:53 PM UTC

Tangled has a nix based workflow engine that looks very similar, if you are into nix and self-hosting runners

https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/blob/master/docs/spindl...

(no affiliation)

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Blog post about Tangled's CI: https://blog.tangled.org/ci

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by kjuulh » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:53 PM UTC

MathiasPius wrote: post #16

Introducing a separate charge specifically targeting those of your customers who choose to self-host your hilariously fragile infrastructure is certainly a choice.. And one I assume is in no way tied to adoption/usage-based KPIs. Of course, if you can just fence in your competition and charge admission, it'd be silly to invest time in building a superior product.

We've self-hosted github actions in the past, and self-hosting it doesn't help all that much with the fragile part. For github it is just as much triggering the actions as it is running them. ;) I hope the product gets some investment, because it has been unstable for such a long time, that on the inside it must be just the usual right now. GitHub has by far the worst uptime of any SaaS tools we use at the moment, and it isn't even close.

> Actions is down again, call Brent so he can fix it again...

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:53 PM UTC

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Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by StrLght » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:54 PM UTC

Pay even more to bring your own hardware? Well, that's new.

I get that self-hosted runners generate huge egress traffic, but this is still wild. Hope it pushes more companies to look into self-hosted Gitea / Forgejo / etc.

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by paulddraper » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:54 PM UTC

> > We are introducing a $0.002 per-minute Actions cloud platform charge for all Actions workflows across GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners.

Holy s***

That's more expensive than an m8i.large.

What on earth.

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by sciencesama » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:55 PM UTC

what are the opensource alternatives to selfhosted runners ?

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by Eikon » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:56 PM UTC

Is there a great opensource CI system that integrates nicely with github repos?

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by jeduardo » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:56 PM UTC

tom1337 wrote: post #13

jeduardo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a surprise, do you have a link to their announcement?

Nope because I confused Bitbucket with GitLab. My bad. BitBuckets announcement can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165180

Thanks for clarifying it! I left bitbucket many years ago when they changed their UI to a new style that was awful to use...

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by 8organicbits » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 5:57 PM UTC

Earlier this year I priced out AWS's on-demand m7i.large instances at $0.002/minute [1]. GitHub's two-core costs $0.008/minute today so it was a nice savings. But it looks like this announcement doubles the self-hosted cost and reduces their two-core system pricing to $0.006/min.

From this perspective this is a huge price jump, but self-hosting to save money can still work out.

Honestly, GitHub Actions have been too flaky for me and I'm begrudgingly reaching for Jenkins again for new projects.

[1] https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/m7i.large?currency=USD&...